Created Wednesday, Apr 14th 2021 19:44Z, last updated Wednesday, Apr 14th 2021 20:01Z
An Air Greenland Dash 8-200, registration OY-GRP performing flight
GL-4651 from Kulusuk to Nuuk (Greenland) with 24 passengers, was climbing out of Kulusuk's gravel runway 29 at about 13:40L (15:40Z) when the crew needed to shut the right hand engine (PW123D) down. While sirenes were sounding in Kulusuk calling emergency services to the airport, the aircraft positioned at low level (approximately 600 feet MSL) for a return and landed safely back on runway 11 about 11 minutes after departure.
The airline reported the crew received indication of an engine failure, shut the engine down and returned to Kulusuk. It appears the fault is probably identified by now, and it was not an engine fault as initially believed, an automatic back up system incorrectly activated and triggered the alarm. This occurrence is thus not related to the two engine shut downs that occurred earlier this year.
OY-GRP had suffered another engine failure less than two weeks ago, see Incident: Greenland DH8B at Kangerlussuaq on Apr 2nd 2021, engine shut down in flight, in February another DH8B OY-GRJ had suffered another engine fault, see Incident: Greenland DH8B near Nuuk on Feb 10th 2021, engine shut down in flight.
