NEW DELHI: Now Pratt & Whitney (PW) engines for Airbus A320 Neo are affecting GoAir also. On Tuesday, a GoAir Neo (WT-WGC) operating as G8-186 from Delhi to Varanasi saw its engine number-2 have high vibration and then stall. Since twin engine-aircraft can safely land on one engine, this aircraft with about 60 people on board did so by returning to Delhi within an hour of taking off from here.
Trouble on WT-WGC began soon after the flight took off from Delhi at 6.40 pm Tuesday. Flight tracking sites show almost as soon as the aircraft reached an altitude of 10.5 km, it began rapid descent and turned back for Delhi where it landed safely at 7.36 pm.
“Engine number 2 had high vibrations and stalled. Incidentally, this is among the unmodified PW engines that the DGCA has asked both IndiGo and GoAir — the only two Indian carriers using PW-powered Neos — to replace by this month-end. It had done over 6,200 hours.
