Created Thursday, Dec 8th 2022 20:01Z, last updated Friday, Dec 16th 2022 20:27Z
An Air Transat Airbus A321-200N, registration C-GOIF performing flight
TS-233 from Faro (Portugal) to Toronto,ON (Canada) with 150 people on board, was climbing out of Faro when the crew stopped the climb at FL240 due to problems with one of the engines (PW1133G). The aircraft returned to Faro for a safe landing on runway 10 about 90 minutes after departure.
The aircraft remained on the ground for about 2:15 hours, departed again but again needed to stop the climb at FL220 and return to Faro for a safe landing about 50 minutes after departure.
The aircraft remained on on the ground until Dec 12th 2022 before returning to service.
On Dec 16th 2022 the Canadian TSB reported in the first flight the crew received an ECAM message to retard engine #2 lever. The crew moved the thrust lever to idle, declared PAN PAN and reuturned to Faro. The same scenario repeated after second departure, about 15 minutes into the flight the crew again received an ECAM message to retard the right hand thrust lever. After the second occurrence the aircraft was grounded for maintenance.
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