NK1351 - Incident: Spirit A320 at Orlando on Jun 8th 2023

A Spirit Airlines Airbus A320-200, registration N624NK performing flight NK-1351 from Orlando,FL to New York La Guardia,NY (USA) with 163 people, was climbing out of Orlando's runway 17R when the crew stopped the climb at 6000 feet reporting they had a left engine (V2527) failure and needed to return to Orlando. The aircraft landed safely on runway 18L about 20 minutes after departure.

A replacement A320-200 registration N644NK reached New York with a delay of about 4:45 hours.

The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Orlando 3 days later.