ATC tape of Aer Lingus ‘Mayday’ at Orlando Airport. May 13th 2010 2230Z.
An Aer Lingus Airbus A330-200, registration EI-LAX performing flight EI-120 from Orlando,FL (USA) to Dublin (Ireland) with 245 passengers and 11 crew, had just departed runway 18L when the crew declared emergency reporting their left hand engine (CF6) had failed due to a massive loss of oil. The airplane levelled off at 2000 feet initially then climbed to 3000 feet for a left hand traffic pattern and landed safely back on runway 18R 25 minutes after takeoff, vacated the runway, fire services inspected the left hand engine on the taxiway and found everything normal except for the engine not running, the airplane taxied to the gate.
Runway 18L was closed for about 25 minutes to conduct a runway inspection following the departure.