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Air carrier flight crew reported they ran into a snowdrift that had blown onto the taxiway which auto shutdown the right engine.

Narrative:

After landing; on the taxi in; we turned westbound on taxiway; since it was snowing fairly hard; and the wind was blowing; we made sure to identify the yellow centerline and confirmed it by noting the blue taxi lights to our right. Almost abeam to the gate the right engine shut down. We stopped and requested a tug. When the snow let up we determined we were stuck on a snowdrift that had blown onto the taxiway.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Air carrier flight crew reported they ran into a snowdrift that had blown onto the taxiway which auto shutdown the right engine.

Narrative: After landing; on the taxi in; we turned westbound on taxiway; since it was snowing fairly hard; and the wind was blowing; we made sure to identify the yellow centerline and confirmed it by noting the blue taxi lights to our right. Almost abeam to the gate the right engine shut down. We stopped and requested a tug. When the snow let up we determined we were stuck on a snowdrift that had blown onto the taxiway.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.