Incident: Brussels Airlines A333 near Kinshasa on Nov 19th 2009, engine shut down in flight

By Simon Hradecky, created Friday, Nov 20th 2009 14:50Z, last updated Friday, Nov 20th 2009 14:50Z

A Brussels Airlines Airbus A330-300, registration OO-SFN performing flight SN-359 from Kinshasa N'Djili (Democratic Republic of Congo) to Brussels (Belgium) with 125 passengers, had just about reached cruise flight, when the crew observed one of the engines exceeding vibration limits and shut the engine down. The airplane returned to Kinshasa, where the airplane landed safely about one hour after departure.

The flight was postponed to the next day and later cancelled.