B-767 flight crew reported an oil filter EICAS message while on descent from cruise. The crew shut down the engine and continued to destination airport where a safe landing was completed.
Synopsis
B-767 flight crew reported an oil filter EICAS message while on descent from cruise. The crew shut down the engine and continued to destination airport where a safe landing was completed.
Narrative
On descent to ZZZ (approximately 15;000 ft); the L Oil Filter EICAS message appeared. QRH procedures were followed (with the assistance of the off duty Check Airman who was jumpseating to work); which led to shutting down the left engine; [requesting priority handling] and landing at ZZZ.Suggestions: No except to note that Aircraft X is well known to have recurring maintenance issues. It also should be noted that during pushback in ZZZ1 the right engine had a hung start where we went through the checklist; got it started on second attempt then did a flight crew deferral procedure. I wrote a previous report for Flight XXX for a problem with the left engine starting where I not only had problems with the engine starts; but also how maintenance tried to take shortcuts and non-standard procedures to resolve the issue. The other problem I have with Aircraft X is the cockpit layout. The LDS (Large Display) system itself is fairly straight forward; but having many of the switches and buttons so radically in different places I believe is a safety hazard and unnecessary. As an example; we shouldn't have to be searching all over the cockpit for the flap override button because it is in a completely different place than the rest of the fleet and what we are used to.
Second reporter narrative
I was the Pilot Monitoring for flight XXX going from ZZZ to ZZZ1. We were in Aircraft X on the second flight of the day. The first flight; from ZZZ2 to ZZZ; in the same aircraft; occurred without any problems.On the leg into ZZZ1 two issues occurred. The first occurred right after we pushed back in ZZZ when the right (number two) engine experienced a hung start. I accomplished the aborted engine start checklist and the engine started on the second attempt. The Captain proceeded to call maintenance control and a flight crew deferral was accomplished per MEL 74-XX-XX.The second issue that we had was on descent into ZZZ1. We were within 50 miles of the field and at approximately 15;000 feet. We had just started getting vectors for the ILS XX; and were being put onto the downwind. A L OIL FILTER" EICAS message appeared; and the Captain had me accomplish the checklist. We were near idle descent power. Per the checklist; after the message stayed after we pulled the power on that engine to idle; we were directed to the engine shutdown checklist. That evening; we had one of the Check Airman on the jumpseat. The Captain and I confirmed with him that the checklist was calling for an engine shutdown. We then shutdown the engine per the checklist and proceeded to [request priority handling]. We landed and taxied in without any more problems.Suggestions: Besides getting new engines for that plane; no. One thing to note; once we were on the ground and had maintenance onboard; we were asked why we shut down the engine. It was surprising to me that the mechanics didn't realize that the oil filter checklist led to the engine shutdown checklist"
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