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On 4 July 2014, Virgin Australia Flight 867 departed from Perth, Western Australia for a regularly scheduled domestic flight to Melbourne, Victoria. The flight was operating a Boeing 737-800 aircraft and was carrying 97 passengers and crew. As the plane was climbing, the flight crew heard a loud noise coming from one of the engine intakes. The aircraft's first officers went outside to inspect the engine and found that one of the engine's fans had detached due to a fan blade failure. After the incident, the flight crew returned to the cockpit and decided to divert the flight back to Perth, the departure airport. The flight landed safely at Perth Airport at 7:39pm local time, and all passengers and crew were unharmed. Following the incident, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) conducted an investigation into the cause of the incident and found that the fan blade attachment point had been weakened due to metal fatigue, which led to the fan blade detachment and the engine intake failure.