E170 first officer reported that a flap fail EICAS warning resulted in a return to the departure air...

Attributes
ACN	1712978
Time
Date	201912
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	EMB ERJ 170/175 ER/LR
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Flap Control (Trailing & Leading Edge)
Person 1
Function	First Officer Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe

Narrative:

[Requested priority handling] when we got a EICAS message of flap fail. Ran the checklist and deemed that to return back to ZZZ was a safer choice due to how close we were instead of flying to ZZZ1. Got vectors for a no flap landing on the longest runway xx at ZZZ.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: E170 First Officer reported that a FLAP FAIL EICAS warning resulted in a return to the departure airport.

Narrative: [Requested priority handling] when we got a EICAS message of flap fail. Ran the checklist and deemed that to return back to ZZZ was a safer choice due to how close we were instead of flying to ZZZ1. Got vectors for a no flap landing on the longest Runway XX at ZZZ.

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.

E170 first officer reported that a flap fail EICAS warning resulted in a return to the departure airport.