Boeing 747 N482EV

Summary

On 28 November 2010 at about 06:00 local time, a Boeing 747 registered N482EV, operated by Evergreen International Airlines, was involved in an incident near Chubu, Japan, Japan. 3 people were on board and nobody was injured. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

28 November 2010 at 06:00

Classification

Incident

Location

Chubu, Japan, Japan

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Boeing 747

Registration

N482EV

Category

Airplane

Engines

4

Operator

Evergreen International Airlines

Operating rule

Part 121: Air Carrier

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Aircraft damage

Not recorded

NTSB number

ENG11WA005

Nobody was injured.

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

On November 28, 2010, at about 06:00 Japan Standard Time (JST), after taking off from Chubu Centrair International Airport, operating as flight EIA238, the crew of an Evergreen International Airlines Boeing 747-200F airplane, registration number N482EV, noticed increased vibrations from the number 2 Pratt & Whitney JT9D turbofan engine while climbing through 1,100 meters altitude. The flight crew shut the engine down and returned to the same airport, landing at about 07:14 JST. None of the three crew reported injuries. A post flight boroscope inspection on December 1, 2010 revealed that the low pressure turbine blades of the number 2 engine were severely damaged. The accident is being investigated by the Japanese Transportation Safety Board Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism 2-1-2, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-8918 Japan Tel.: (81) 3 5253 8486 Fax: (81) 3 5253 1680 E-mail: [email protected] AFTN: RJTDYAYA Cable: KOKUKYOKU-TOKYO Website: http://www.mlit.go.jp/jtsb/english.html This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information obtained for, or released by the Government of Japan.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.