Investigators are probing another serious engine failure on a Swiss Airbus A220-300, less than 2 months after a previous similar incident involving a sister aircraft on the same route. The aircraft (HB-JCA) had been operating Geneva-London Heathrow Sept 16 when the failure occurred in the left-hand Pratt & Whitney PW1500G engine during climb. US NTSB investigators state that the incident took place just before the twinjet reached its cruising altitude of 35,000ft. The crew returned to Geneva after carrying out quick-reference handbook procedures and declaring an emergency. Inspection of the aircraft after it landed showed that the stage-one rotor in the low-pressure compressor had separated and there was a hole in the compressor case. <br/>
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A Muslim civil rights advocacy group is demanding changes at Air Canada after a 12-year-old says she was forced to remove her hijab while boarding at San Francisco International. The San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said Friday that federal and state laws were violated when an Air Canada gate agent demanded the girl remove her religious head covering. She requested a private area so she could remove her headscarf in private and in the exclusive presence of female Air Canada agents, but the council says airline employees refused. The advocacy group is seeking the airline order cultural competency training for employees and policy changes prohibiting discrimination. It wants monetary damages for emotional distress, a formal written apology, and reprimand of employees involved. <br/>