Narrative:

We had the left bleed air leak light illuminate; this was around xa:38 zulu. After completion of the emergency/non-normal checklist for bleed air leak the light was still illuminated. The checklist then instructed us to continue to engine shutdown. We completed the shutdown checklist; declared the emergency with ATC; talked to the flight attendant and let her know this was a yellow emergency and that we would be landing. She told me she was ok and that the passengers were concerned but she was able to keep them calm and in their seats. I gave a PA to further calm the passengers and briefly explained the situation. At this point we began a planned descent for the airport. We then began to contact company; using commercial radio we were able to let dispatch know of the situation but now below 10;000 feet we were unable to continue communications. We then completed the malfunction adjustment chart and worked out our landing numbers. When we switched over to tower we told them we would be stopping on the runway without an evacuation and would like the trucks to come around and use the thermal cameras to check the left engine nacelle and surrounding area for heat. We landed the runway about xa:54 zulu and stopped on the runway. The wind was no factor; there is only a 400 foot difference between [the airports] runways both 150 feet wide and our chosen runway allowed us to make a straight in approach. I informed the passengers to remain calm and in their seats with their seat belts on while arff checked the aircraft. Everything checked normal and we had the trucks follow us to the gate. Tower informed us that the gate was ready for us and would park us next to the terminal. We shutdown and deplaned the passengers into the terminal xb:03 zulu.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: SF340 flight crew experienced an inflight bleed air leak and a subsequent inflight engine shutdown before diverting for an uneventful landing.

Narrative: We had the left bleed air leak light illuminate; this was around XA:38 Zulu. After completion of the emergency/non-normal checklist for bleed air leak the light was still illuminated. The checklist then instructed us to continue to engine shutdown. We completed the shutdown checklist; declared the emergency with ATC; talked to the Flight Attendant and let her know this was a yellow emergency and that we would be landing. She told me she was OK and that the passengers were concerned but she was able to keep them calm and in their seats. I gave a PA to further calm the passengers and briefly explained the situation. At this point we began a planned descent for the airport. We then began to contact company; using commercial radio we were able to let Dispatch know of the situation but now below 10;000 feet we were unable to continue communications. We then completed the malfunction adjustment chart and worked out our landing numbers. When we switched over to Tower we told them we would be stopping on the runway without an evacuation and would like the trucks to come around and use the thermal cameras to check the left engine nacelle and surrounding area for heat. We landed the runway about XA:54 Zulu and stopped on the runway. The wind was no factor; there is only a 400 foot difference between [the airports] runways both 150 feet wide and our chosen runway allowed us to make a straight in approach. I informed the passengers to remain calm and in their seats with their seat belts on while ARFF checked the aircraft. Everything checked normal and we had the trucks follow us to the gate. Tower informed us that the gate was ready for us and would park us next to the terminal. We shutdown and deplaned the passengers into the terminal XB:03 Zulu.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.