B6109 - Incident: Jetblue A321 near Fort Lauderdale on Sep 3rd 2020

A Jetblue Airbus A321-200, registration N997JL performing flight B6-109 from Fort Lauderdale,FL (USA) to Port au Prince (Haiti) with 113 passengers and 6 crew, was climbing through FL280 out of Fort Lauderdale when the crew stopped the climb due to a compressor vane indication for one of the engines (V2533). The aircraft returned to Fort Lauderdale for a safe landing about 50 minutes after departure.

A replacement A21N registration N2029J reached Port au Prince with a delay of about 6:15 hours.

The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Fort Lauderdale about 24 hours after landing.