Second Swiss A220 suffers similar engine rotor failure

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/>