Air France Flight 066

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Air France Flight 066 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Los Angeles International Airport, operated by Air France and using an Airbus A380. On 30 September 2017, the aircraft suffered an uncontained engine failure and made an emergency landing at Goose Bay Airport, Canada. While the aircraft was in cruise flight 150 kilometres (93 mi; 81 nmi) southeast of Paamiut, Greenland, the outboard right-side Engine Alliance GP7200 engine failed, with the fan hub and intake separating from the aircraft. An accident investigation report was published by the French Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) in September 2020; the investigation determined that the engine failure was caused by a crack in the fan hub due to "cold dwell" metal fatigue. This was the second of two uncontained engine failures suffered by the Airbus A380 type, following that of a Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine on Qantas Flight 32 in 2010.

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