WN2301 - Incident: Southwest B737 at Sacramento on Feb 8th 2025
Created Monday, Feb 10th 2025 13:07Z, last updated Monday, Feb 10th 2025 13:07Z
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700, registration N288WN performing flight WN-2301 from Sacramento,CA to Denver,CO (USA), was climbing out of Sacramento's runway 35L when the crew requested to level off at 4000 feet advising they were looking at something. After levelling off at 4000 feet the crew advised about a minute later, that they needed to return to Sacramento, they had a possible engine (CFM56) issue. The aircraft landed safely on Sacramento's runway 35L about 18 minutes after departure.
A replacement Boeing 737-700 registration N416WN reached Denver with a delay of about 2:10 hours.
The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Sacramento about 19.5 hours after landing.
Source: The Aviation Herald