CAL jet landed with one engine
Cayman Airways Boeing 737-800
(CNS) UPDATED: The pilots flying the Cayman Airways Boeing 737-800 to Tampa yesterday shut down one of its engines after the plane “experienced abnormal engine parameters” shortly after takeoff from Grand Cayman. Captain Steven Coe and First Officer Kel Thompson returned to Owen Roberts International Airport and landed the plane safely. All 128 passengers and crew on board were unhurt.
The 14-year-old plane was leased by Cayman Airways last November as an interim measure before moves to lease four new 737-8Max aircraft to replace its aging fleet.
The airline said that shortly after taking off at 11:50am on Thursday 14 September, the plane “experienced abnormal engine parameters, accompanied by vibration, on the right-hand engine while climbing through 5,000 feet. The situation required the pilots to quickly complete several required safety checks inflight, which resulted in the engine having to be shut down and an emergency declared for a landing with an inoperative engine at ORIA.”
Cayman Airways President and CEO, Fabian Whorms, said the crew remained in complete control of the aircraft and situation at all times, and the aircraft landed safely at 12:20pm, half an hour after takeoff, without further incident.
“While our pilots are highly trained and well prepared to handle any situation in flight, we highly commend Captain Coe and the rest of the crew for their precise execution of the prescribed procedures in this instance,” Whorms said.
“All multi-engine aircraft are certified to operate all phases of flight with one engine inoperative, including takeoff and landing, provided a specific set of operating procedures are followed. All Cayman Airways pilots are extremely competent at performing these procedures and, in this instance, Captain Coe and First Officer Thompson performed with the highest level of precision possible, resulting in a very safe and uneventful landing.”
Whorms added, “As always, we at Cayman Airways place safety as our highest priority and we are thankful for the patience and understanding of our passengers. We know that the onboard experience during this event was unsettling for our passengers and we apologize for any discomfort experienced. We can, however, assure everyone that the flight crew maintained a safe operating environment throughout the flight.”
The aircraft has been removed from service for repairs and another Cayman Airways aircraft and crew operated a delayed flight KX200 to Tampa, which left at 3:03pm. No other flights were delayed.
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KX needs to update their passenger electronics policy. All airlines updated theirs years ago, but we still have to turn off all electronics, remove headphones, open window shades, give me a break. Get with the times!
Still a CAA requirement – not determined by the airline.
You’d think Cayman would have an airforce what with all the armchair pilots it has.
cal…. mile for mile..the most expensive airline i’ve ever been on….
typical cayman…5 star price…3 star quality
Yet we have the smoothest flights and soft landings compared to ALL Other Airlines #CALalltheway
A reminder that on perilous journeys, we need to always place our trust in the Most High, and not in man-made inventions
I hope the powers be realize these planes are crap. We never had issues like these with the old planes.
That was the new plane FYI
No it’s not. It’s an old loaner pending delivery of the shiny new ones.
CAL aircraft landed with two engines, but only one was operating, distinct difference, but then again landed with one engine does sound more dramatic.
Again! It amazes me how there are so many aviation experts. You people have no idea what it takes to run an airline, operate a plane, make the necessary decisions everyday for the better of the company, the employees and the country. I find these comments so distasteful and degrading to the good people who are out there everyday ensuring the passengers are transported safely. Stop insulting everyone and everything that is connected to Cayman Airways. OUR National Airline. They never turn their backs on the country, why do you all continuially tear them down!
I LOVE MY NATIONAL AIRLINE!!!
Why?
Because our pilots are not only trained, experienced and skilled – they are caring, attentive and always have their passengers safety at the forefront of their minds.
This all makes sense because as a small island many of our pilots are flying family and close friends on almost every flight – if your child is on board, or your aunt, cousin or grandma – wouldn’t you naturally proceed with all caution and skill whether under typical or emergency situations?!
The captain, first officer and the air hostesses must be commended – and most of all, thanks be to God for divine guidance in what could have been a tragic loss of life regardless of this aircrafts design to fly with one engine.
There have been many aircrafts with this design that did not get the opportunity to report a safe, uneventful landing when such issues arose – despite our country’s turn away from our Christian heritage and us allowing the world to roll in and call us idiots for believing in a divine being; we must be very grateful that God is still in control.
Sorry God had nothing to do with this. It was the Captain and First Officer who brought the plane in safely!!! If for some reason the plane didn’t make it who would have you blamed than? God? I don’t think so!!!
Psalm 74:10
“How long, O God, will the adversary revile, And the enemy spurn Your name forever?”
Please remember that “every tongue shall confess”… I feel sorry for you.
“There have been many aircrafts with this design that did not get the opportunity to report a safe, uneventful landing when such issues arose” You are making a claim. Care to support this statement with facts?
For goodness sake just Google it!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Airliner_accidents_and_incidents_caused_by_engine_failure
So a plane being able to land is enough to convince you of divine intervention.
don’t forget the mechanics they keep the planes working in good order so the pilots don’t have too much trouble, always remember them, they are doing an very good job.
Ordinarily I would agree, but a strange comment to make when an engine failure is the cause of the incident.
Great job Steven & Kel ??
Let’s just try and remember how blessed we are that as a country we have our own airline and don’t need to rely on others to bail us out. As far as I am aware, AA has still not reinstated its route between GCM and MIA and many of us remember how things were after Ivan. Is Cayman Airways perfect, probably not, but I have yet to find a carrier who consistently delivers and having to pay for each bag plus stand on some of those idiotic self-check kiosks which don’t work half the time is a turn off in itself.
Not a country, but if you got rid of the airline, you could afford to bring up your poor people.
Also, lets try to remember that without the C.I.G hand feeding millions of $ annually into KX , at a dead loss for return revenue , all the older planes would be in the desert bone-yard of Arizona , for spare parts.
AA is flying to MIA this afternoon
No flights from MIA for 7 days… SMH
free bags?…i should hope so…esp when they can get away with charging $450 for a 1 hr flight to miami….
Don’t forget the rum punch
Perhaps people should cease being armchair experts especially when referring to aviation which most people have no exposure to or education in, mainly due to a raging fear of it. Grand Cayman to Chicago is over 1600 miles btw. I hardly think that qualifies as a “short distance”. The commentary on this forum every time an aviation incident occurs is just plain stupid. These are probably the same people that would jump w/o hesitation on other airline carriers with numerous fatal hull loss accidents to save a buck. And then get on social media to bash Cayman and other airlines, of course once safely delivered to their destination…..!
Plane takes off, plane has issue, crew acts accordingly, plane lands.
Perfect reply. People, please go to PilotPointer.com, look under latest occurrences and you will find numerous incidents like this worldwide nearly every day.
I have a question. The Cayman Islands pilots only fly very short distances. To become a pilot you need more than 1,500 hours of flight experience. If they fly 3-4 hours a day that would take 500 days just to meet the requirement. Are they qualified to fly long distances? Or there is no difference in flying short vs. long distances?
guy…the 1500 hours experience they would get before being hired for Cayman Airways. Takes 1500 hours before you get employed. You do flight school and finished and work your hours up ….
Typically they would have to fly smaller aircrafts and yes it does take a long time for them to gain the amount of hours needed. It’s not a short and easy road to become a commercial airline pilot but within reason they are holding many peoples lives in their hands by flying these planes.
P.S. I know this because I have a friend who applied numerous times to Cayman Airways and they are VERY strict with who they allow to be pilots, they grant no leniency, you must have completed your required hours to even be allowed to fly the small planes going to Cayman Brac. You don’t gain your hours while working for them you must have them coming in.
I pilot has to build their hours to the minimum requirement prior to flying commercially. They then start on the twin otters as first officers flying to sister island to build more hours to then become a captain of the twin otters. Then they build more hours as captains of the twin otters to become a first officer on one of the jets.
Really did you just ask that question…sure there are pilots who can only fly 3-4 hours and there are pilots that can fly 6-8 hours a day..Lol..
Are you kidding me? what’s the difference in qualification between a pilot that flies 3-4 hours per day and one that flies 4-6? Answer is nothing…If you drive your car for 2-3 hours a day, are you less qualified to drive than a person that just drove theirs for 6 hours?
Can’t make this stuff up…
It was a simple question that implied nothing. no need to become smarty pants.
To Anonymous at 8:00 am. This is by far the most stupid comment I have ever read on CNS!
There is no such thing as a dumb question. If you ask a question it makes you look stupid for 5 minutes – but if you don’t ask – you stay stupid for fifty years, so always ask questions in your life.
tape it up and back on run way!
Thankfully CAL is not so stupid….
well done to the pilots….
however it shines a light on a lot of things that does not make sense about their new leased plane….
where are the new routes to the west coast of america?
why is this plane being used on existing short-haul routes?
why did this plane not come with modern in flight entertainment screens?
why does the interior seem like you are sitting in a plane from 1975?
my recent experience with cal is one of delays, frustration coupled with planes that appear well past their sell-by date….
Failed English, didn’t you?
No.
Failed English did you not? Or Failed English did you?
Passed with flying colours on a full CIG scholarships to MMU in Orlando, Florida.
the new routes come eventually.REMEMBER we still have 4 newer planes to get and these will be introducing the new routes. THIS 737-800 is for the transition into the new plane, the plane is being use on short hauls to get all current pilots up to date from flying the old 737-300s. YOU cant go from the 737-300 to the 737-8MAX without knowing the 737-800NG … The 737-800 was built in 2003 and is only for training purposes(hence its 1975 setting). THE 737-8MAX will be the newest in technology and better flight entertainment, GET to know your facts ..
yawn….i heard this soon-come nonsense years ago…..zzzzzzzzzzzzz
Sorry dude but they are already building 737 max 9 and will be building 737 max 10s shortly. By the time cal gets their ndw planes they would have been two newer generation 737 max aircrafts.
Max 8, Max 9 and Max 10 are all the same technology. The Max 8 is a state-of-the-art aircraft being ordered by dozens of airlines around the world.
Max 9s or 10s are not newer generations. Just different sizes more or less.
Why is this news? Is it because it is Cayman Airways? This happens every day, with pretty much every airline and at many airports..These are machines. Machines malfunction from time to time. If the operators of these machines are trained properly and know what to do in times of emergency then for the most part these incidents are not newsworthy..
Congrats to the pilots! Obviously, well trained professionals!
We’re not going to share any news that happens in the world again with you . See how you like that .
So won’t it help to travel with a flight engineer on the plane on each route? It won’t hurt.
All pilots flying commercial jets are highly trained, it is not clear to me why “it would have been much worse” if the pilot had been non Caymanian. As far as I am aware the only pilot who overran the runway in a Cayman Airways jet, and ended up in the North Sound with all his passengers, and wrote off a multi million dollar aircraft, was Caymanian.
that aircraft wasn’t written off, it was repaired and flew out of here, and is flying with Southwest Airlines to this day.
It’s a seaplane now- southwests only one.
plane was not written off. it flew with southwest until 2012
you are an ass..with Cayman Status
Veritas, when you have a good Captain /Pilot that has to make a quick decision for safety of his life and his passages lives, he doesn’t think of the craft . When that Caymanian Pilot put the plane in the water it was the safest thing he could have done, if he tryed to keep the plane out of the water then he would of had houses and much harder stuff to contend with , then that’s where real disaster could have happened .
Perhaps you should read the AAIB report
I don’t need to read any stupid made up report on that decision that the Pilot made to keep the people and himself safe . Just think about the decision that Captain Sully made to keep everyone of his over 200 passengers alive . Captain Bothwell did the same thing all of his passengers were safe too .
But I glad you’re not a Captain or a Pilot because I wouldn’t even get in a car with you driving it .
But I am glad that Captain Bothwell knew how to swim , because if he didn’t know how to swim he would have made the wrong decision , because when you don’t how to swim you become scared of water and panic , when you know water has to be in the decision you have to make in that emergency.
‘A stupid made up report’. Perhaps pilots don’t need stupid made up checklists either then? Do you know how much safer aviation has become because of AAIB and NTSB reports? Talk about ignorance. Just for the record, Sully was in a situation beyond his control. Do you really believe decisions are made based on swimming ability?
That report has been erased from every data base.
What happened back then could have happened to any professional pilot whose reverse thrusters malfunctioned on a wet runway.
Why did the pilot lose his job then?. Did we get the whole story?.
And he apparently only went off the end of the runway because someone in Miami had disconnected the autobrake and thrust reversers to get round a fault indication.
Veritas, XXXX I respect your right to speak but you seem to speak of Caymanians in a mostly derogatory and disrespectful manner, XXXX.
As to your statements above, that plane was not written off but repaired right here in Cayman and flew out of here under it’s own steam and was placed in service with another airline. Please get your facts straight before you bend them to suit your needs. By the way, yes the pilots were Caymanian but one incident in 49 years…I would say, let’s chalk that up to some good “Caymanian” pilots and maintenance crews..
They are lots of highly trained and skilled pilots around the world. The difference is in the pride, loyalty, professionalism and skill of the “Caymanian” pilots.
XXXXX
Just for the record, CAL has a number of non Caymanaian pilots every bit as competent as our natives, which the original poster has insulted by suggesting had they been flying the aircraft “the result would hve been much worse” i.e it would have crashed. A perfect example of Caymanian ego from one of our many native bigots.
Let it go Veritas…
Sorry but you just do not understand anything about avaition. First of all Cal pilots are very familar with ORIA runway. Second you obviously were not here when the incident occurred. At the time the runway was being re-enforced and repaved to take heavier aircrafts and it was an extremely hazzardous night including very low visibility. Ah why bother you are just one of those anti-Caymanians. You probably would have crucified jesus too.
I will always fly our local airlines CAL they never had a major crash where there were lost of lives.
You mean “loss of lives”
Let us start a fundraiser to buy one!!
Lottery? We could probably buy a private jet for every Caymanian the way locals buy illegal numbers! haha
Numbers from overseas sold by overseas folks 🙂
Thank goodness that was a Caymanian pilot, because they are the best pilots in the world. If that was any other pilot it would have been much worse.
Based on….?
Kennedy Panton a Caymanian is one of Boeings top pilots
Hadn’t realized he was flying the plane.
Poster never said he was. In case you missed it, subject was Caymanian pilots in general not specifically who was in command.
“Caymanian pilots because they are the best pilots in the world”. Can you substantiate that claim with any reputable checkable evidence? Or are you just buying in to Ezzard’s “Caymanyuns (sic) are the most talented people on earth being held down by blah blah blah”
Obviously it hurts you to admit that Caymanians are professional and we show this by not hiring expats for oue national airline.
HA ha..haha!!!LOL
Yeah it’s a good thing that Captain Sully is Caymanian
Pretty sure the poster is being sarcastic. But you all just couldn’t wait to jump on the “bash a Caymanian” bandwagon, could you.
Got your bias; hook, line and sinker bo-bo!
As opposed to the Caymanian s are the best in the world without any evidence whatsoever bandwagon? Got your bias too bobo.
CAL has great pilots (maybe the best) but crappy outdated aircraft. I refuse to fly with them until new planes are purchased… Not worth the risk or the inevitable delays.
but this was the “new” one
Actually it’s a loner until the new ones come. Definitely not new.
What a crappy opinion. AA, Delta to name a few fly thirty year old airplanes. And I would bet you have been on those without any knowledge of that.
AA have youngest airplane fleet in USA and possibly in the world
Do your research. Norwegian operates the youngest fleet in the world. Average age 3.2 years. No way AA. The Middle East boys also operate the youngest in the world.. Again No Way AA.
Again you are wrong most low cost carriers have the newest planes such as southwest or jetblue. Not traditional airlines like AA.
Some of Delta’s aircraft particularly the MD80′ s they fly here are close to 40 years old..
Yep! I cant believe they are still taking them across the water. I’m so sure the Wright brothers helped build those MD80’s ?
In reply to “Anonymous 14/09/2017 at 4:49 pm”:
Is it really fair and reasonable to call the Boeing 737-800 a “crappy outdated aircraft”?
Thank God and Crew all are safe.
It’s one of the newer leased model 8’s
Guess you havent least a brand new lemon yet !
Pretty sure according to what I have seen so far that the plane involved is the newer plane with the winglets that they leased last year, so
Oh and AA have never had an engine fail??
Oh yeah, great thinking, new airplanes don’t break down, only older ones do…Good Lord , get a clue man!
First of all this was an engine problem not a structural problem with the aircraft. When engines have problems the FAA/CAA requires that they be repaired to their former “new” state. In some instances where engine repair will be extensive, airline’s simply remove the engine needing repairing and replace it with a new one until that one is repaired…
Well, that’s one man’s opinion. But me personally, I prefer a crappy craft with a great pilot versus a crappy pilot with a great craft.
No point in having the best equipment if you don’t know how to properly use it.