Created Thursday, Apr 15th 2021 22:13Z, last updated Thursday, Apr 15th 2021 22:13Z
A Fedex Federal Express McDonnel Douglas MD-11, registration N589FE performing flight
FX-167 from Anchorage,AK to Memphis,TN (USA) with 2 crew, was climbing out of Anchorage's runway 33 when the crew requested to stop climb advising ATC of an engine (CF6) malfunction and received a block altitude between 2000 and 4000 feet MSL. Tower advised he had seen black smoke from the right hand engine. After talking to dispatch the crew decided to climb the aircraft to 12,000 feet to dump fuel and returned to Anchorage for a safe landing on runwsy 07R about 45 minutes after departure.
A replacement MD-11 registration N603FE reached Memphis with a delay of about 3 hours.
The occurrence aircraft returned to service after about 46 hours on the ground.
