Engine oil leak forces Jet flight to divert to Budapest

A Jet Airways Boeing 777-300ER, registration VT-JEB performing flight 9W-229 from Brussels (Belgium) to New Delhi (India) with 232 passengers and 14 crew, diverted to Budapest (Hungary) after the crew noticed dropping oil pressure in the right hand engine. The landing at about 13:30 local (12:30Z) was safe.
Engineers found an oil leak as cause of the oil pressure drop.
Jet Airways confirmed, that there had been an oil leak in the right hand engine prompting the crew to divert as a precaution, the crew however did not shut the engine down other than original reports from Budapest had claimed. A replacement Airbus A330-200 departed Budapest on Oct 30th at 13:44 local.
29/10/08 Simon Hradecky/The Aviation Herald, Austria

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