Ethiopian Airlines plane makes emergency landing after engine failure

Ethiopian Dreamliner flight ET500 took off from Dublin at 6.10am this morning en-route to Washington.

Technical experts were trying to discover the cause of an engine problem on an Ethiopian Airlines jet stranded in Dublin after being forced to turn back over the Atlantic on Friday.

“We appreciate our flight crew for the professional handling of the flight and high standards”.

This incident is not the first of its kind to affect the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners.

Over an hour and a half into the flight, it was reported that one of the plane’s engines had shut down. Maybe 10-15 minutes later they said there was an issue with the left engine and we’d be landing in Dublin and they’d tell us more later’. The pilot opted to return to Dublin where fire and rescue crews were placed on standby. The pilot was able to land at Dublin safely, and the passengers were transferred to a different flight. The aircraft was pursued along the runway by emergency vehicles which also remained with the jet until it reached the terminal building.

One inbound flight was placed in a holding pattern for a short time to allow the emergency aircraft a priority landing.