ENGINE FAILURE (Loss of Oil) ENROUTE | Emergency Divert to Minneapolis 

I almost cried when I heard that magnificent first MAYDAY call by the American. Clear and concise. Be in my team, dude!

Glad to hear the pilots asserting what they need to do to handle the emergency, rather than asking. And ATC was ready to support.

This man had this HANDLED! Good to hear.

I was on this flight too - people have asked me if I was "scared", not so much, more "nervous". The loud, persistent banging from the left side of the aircraft was very alarming. Never heard anything like that and hope not to again! Credit to the AA crew all round, they remained calm and professional, throughout, which enabled the rest of the passengers to do so too!

Actual clear PAN-PAN and MAYDAY calls in North America? I'm staggered!

Pilot on the mic must’ve been the safety official for AA he’s that concise and clear!

Probably some of the best comms I have ever heard. Clear and conscise with all relevamt info given to ATC. They took the 'stay ahead of your plane' phrase well and truly 👏🏼👏🏼

That first pilot's sit.rep was brilliant. He immediately told ATC what he needed to know ahead of time.

Total professionals involved in every stage of this incident. Pilot declaring PAN at the right time to let others on frequency know something is occuring. Then switching to MAYDAY assuring full cooperation from all involved. This is how it should be done. Great job by the American Airlines pilots. Well done.

That was about as clear and concise as a MAYDAY decleration could possibly be. I liked the fact that the calls led the tower rather than waiting for the tower to ask a million questions.

This is a what is called a pilot in command

That has to be the best mayday call I've ever heard. So often pilots seem uncertain or mumble it out, which I mean, I get as they're in a high stress situation. But this dude was so clear, concise and assertive.

Well one finally went well! The SFO ATC team needs to do some shadowing and training with MSP. Well done!

Great work on the pilots, always one step ahead

Very impressive. The pilot stated the nature of the malfunction clearly, as well as well as the level of urgency by using the MayDay call (!!). He also stated clearly his intentions and actions. The air controllers did not ask or said anything other than what was absolutely needed. There was no unnecessary small talk like "do you need us to deploy the emergency vehicles / No , we don't/Well we will deploy them anyway" or anything like that. Very professional work from everybody involved. I wish all ATC communications were like this one, all the time.

Probably one of the best Emergency situation recordings I have ever heared! Everyone was proactive and ahead of the curve. Not picking up on the old ATIS call is pretty much the only mistake. Very well done by all involved.

ATC and Pilots on game with this one. Nice!

I am surprised that ATC continued to direct other airplanes to 12R after hearing possible engine fluids. Luckily, they realised it later and redirected others to 12L.

100% professional all around. Well done to everyone on frequency.

Minneapolis is one of the closer major airports to my neck of the woods! Glad the pilots got the support they needed. MSP has always been good to fly into.

Very nice and clear comms from everybody, except my _cross-your-eyes-and-dot-the-tease_ criticism is that ATC should have come back and told Allegiant 756 that information India was current at 3:45.

The American pilots did a phenomenal job communicating, staying ahead of the questions and controlling the comms the whole time.

Good situation awareness and crm by the flight crew. Very professional communication by the Atc. Awesome job, congrats

Handled perfectly on every end of this….the way it should be. Great job by all those involved

Just fantastic communications. Clear in what they needed and what they planned to do. Superb all around

Pilot says “Standby.” Next transmission is ATC asking if they need to divert or anything. They were already told to standby. And they had to say it again! Again, ATC interrupting checklists and planning. We know that once we declare an emergency, we can get all the assistance that you can offer. We’ll tell you when we need something. I stand my my comments ref the MHT Be 99 crash. Exception: if I’m about to fly out of your airspace or have a terrain issue, by all means, let me know. Otherwise, please leave me alone while I AVIATE.

This situation was handled perfectly by all involved!

Amazing, exemplary, beautiful comms from that American cockpit. Wow. Amazing.

Mayday! Nice and clear.

I love your videos

Bravo.

Solid work fellas

All done by the book. Excellent job all around!

Was there to witness it

Concise communication all around. With one engine out would they have used the remaining reverser in an asymmetric configuration? Or brakes only?

Pilot is speaking very clearly.

This is the third time Portland flights have been impacted this year and it's only January. Alaska plug door. Vegas to PDX return to Vegas. And now a Charlotte to Portland divert to MSP.

Does it seem like everything has been a flight to/from Portland lately. Things really happen in threes. Glad everyone is ok.

I want to commend the ATC and other pilots for the anticipation of an unusable runway post landing by the emergency flight. That was well done, too.

This was from the US!?.. Outstanding work from all.

The crew was the teacher at the head of the classroom and ATC were the student.... "You will sit up straight and listen.... I will teach you everything you need to know" 👍

What, no Airbus jokes? Good job, AA crew.

The media: A *BOEING* A321 made an EMERGENCY landing in Minneapolis.

It's so dangerous to fly these days, is it normal that so many flights lately are having mechanical issues?

I was on this flight

Who was it that told me US pilots done declare mayday?

Aviate, navigate, communicate.

“To a full stop” 😂

why are there so many aircraft issues right now

Did I miss something or did ATC not ask SOB and fuel remaining!!!!

MAYDAY = SO much better NO longer: "uh tower we have an engine problem" " ok, what would you like to do?" " we need to return to the airport" "ok fly heading xxx, speed & altitude your discretion" " we would like to declare and emergency" "ok"

He did not just say they will be making a full stop landing 😂.... As opposed to doing a few single engine touch and go's?

I don't understand why ATC ask about the gate? Can't that wait until they're on the ground?

Can someone please clarify the difference between PAN PAN and MAYDAY? Also is it appropriate to nitpick the Allegiant and ATC lack of direct feedback confirming the runway switch by name and the lack of the updated information India?

There's something about PDX.....

Wait, no fuel or souls on board???

As smothly handled in the air and on the ground, hardly an "emergency". Ptocessionalism from get to go!

1:45 The plane is at 12500ft, why is the gate number so important at this time ?!?

Was it today

How is this better? How?

Why would they need to land ASAP? A321 should be able to fly perfectly well on one engine.

Nicely handled by the pilots .. clear concise instructions to ATC. ATC also played their part by not interrupting (unlike NY - based controllers ) 😮 Only fault would be the initial pilot claim that they needed to burn fuel as they were overweight to land. That’s not correct, airbus recommend labs ASAP when one engine failed. A LAND ASAP memo is highlighted in red on the upper ECAM display to emphasise that. Being overweight is irrelevant and will most like result in nothing more than engineers doing a more thorough inspection before the aircraft is released back into service.

FINALLY! About God damn time! Was getting sick of the Boeings being all over the place.....

I understand PAN PAN in theory. But in practice IMHO, you either have a problem (MAYDAY) or not. We've also seen similar confusion over MINIMUM FUEL calls. You either have a fuel concern or you don't. Why flirt in the middle?

Seems that after Xmas and NY holidays, U S airline fleets weren´t properly inspected after almost running the aircraft to the limits.

So an overweight landing is concern on one engine?

You can tell it was an Airbus as they didn’t mention it was a Max or that Boeing sucks 100X.

who is cutting corners here?

wow, whats really going on 55 comments so far and not ONE talking about this is a Airbus problem, yeah, yeah, i know "but Airbus doesnt make the engine" ok, so where was everyone when the nose wheel fell off of a 757? oh, thats right, bashing Boeing

panne-panne m'aider

Remember when it was standard for planes to have redundant engines, so losing one wasn't an emergency?

2024 is bad cause so many aviation tradegy

Airbus fanboys in shambles

Also, why is the FO telling tower he will be a full stop? Well no shit, how many airlines plan touch-n-go's? They're all full stops, especially when you're an Emergency aircraft.

Bad maintenance 🔥

I don’t know why pilots dont check oil levels on their plane On walkarounds

I thought that this would be a touch and go, lmas