CAIRO – 22 February 2021: Flag carrier EgyptAir announced on Monday grounding four of its of its Boeing 777-200 aircraft, two days after a United Airlines plane of the same type had an engine failure over Colorado, United States. The Egyptian flag carrier said it would suspend the Boeing 777-200 aircraft equipped with the Pratt & Whitney 4000-112 engines, the type of engine involved in the Denver incident. The US Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday urged "immediate or stepped-up inspections" of Boeing 777 aircraft with the same engine type. Boeing agreed with the decision and urged the temporary suspension of all of its 777 aircraft with that engine. The Egyptian company affirmed that its decision is not applied on its six Boeing 777-300 planes, which are equipped with another model of engines.

Source: Egypt Today February 22, 2021 22:07 UTC