MD-11
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Situational Awareness
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Other / Unknown
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Inflight Shutdown; Flight Crew Landed in Emergency Condition; Flight Crew Diverted; General Flight Cancelled / Delayed; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft
I was the First Officer operating Aircraft X from LFPG to MEM. We were approximately 5 hours into cruise flight and I was in crew rest. I felt the plane lurch and was recalled to the cockpit. The plane had a #2 engine failure. The Captain was hand flying and the Relief Pilot was running QRH checklists. I took over ATC duties and per the Captain; I organized a descent initially to FL290 (29;000 ft.) for the engine failure and later to FL280 (28;000 ft.) due to traffic; we did not declare an emergency at that point but we did notify them of the reason for descent. The #2 auto pilot was engaged. Evaluating the situation for the shutdown procedure; we observed 0 oil press but a quantity of 18. The other two pilots told me that they had an oil filter bypass level 1 alert 30 minutes prior. After all the applicable checklist had been done; we messaged with Company and started to evaluate our options. All other systems were operating normally and we had plenty of gas; so the discussion we had got down to the place we all felt most comfortable with that had good weather and crash; fire and rescue in the middle of the night. ZZZ fit all the criteria and the Captain made the call. I was now back in my seat as Pilot Monitoring and First Officer. At top of descent; I [advised ATC] and then we flew an uneventful ILS and taxied under our own power to the gate with a ZZZ rescue truck following us. Cause would appear to be metal in the oil system.
Flight crew flying MD-11 encountered engine failure in cruise.