EW4382 - Incident: Eurowings Malta A320 at Salzburg on Sep 24th 2025
Created Thursday, Sep 25th 2025 19:07Z, last updated Monday, Sep 29th 2025 15:44Z
An Eurowings Europe Malta Airbus A320-200, registration 9H-EUP performing flight EW-4382 from Salzburg (Austria) to Kos (Greece), was climbing out of Salzburg's runway 33 when the crew reported they had engine (CFM56) vibrations, would not continue the departure and requested to enter a hold. The vibrations started already on the runway before becoming airborne, hence the next departure should not immediately depart. The aircraft entered a hold while the crew was working the related checklists, a runway inspection did not find any debris on the runway. The crew advised their left hand engine was vibrating but was kept running, a normal landing back to Salzburg would occur. The aircraft landed safely back on runway 15 about 25 minutes after departure.
A replacement A320-200 registration 9H-EXY reached Kos with a delay of about 4:15 hours.
The occurrence aircraft returned to service about 33.5 hours after landing back.
A post flight inspection revealed a hare had been ingested into the left hand engine.
Source: The Aviation Herald