A321
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Troubleshooting; Workload
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; Flight Crew Requested ATC Assistance / Clarification; Flight Crew Landed in Emergency Condition; Flight Crew Inflight Shutdown; General Flight Cancelled / Delayed; General Maintenance Action
Human Factors; Aircraft
Descending into ZZZ; approximately FL120 ECAM showed eng 2 compressor stall lasted approximately 7 seconds then went away Initially thought it was a spurious alert; but it came back with multiple ECAM alerts all appearing and disappearing in a rapid fashion. Was attempting to verify what was happening through assessing what we actually had. After verifying high EGT and abnormal n2 rotation speed coordinated engine shutdown with First Officer who was the pilot flying. Requested priority handling due to single engine ops; but did not suspect severe damage in that we had no vibration; and no fire warning. Landed in approximately 20 minutes; uneventfully.We became very task saturated very quickly however; we were able to maintain positive control of the aircraft and of the situation.  ATC did an amazing job supporting our flight to ZZZ. There is not much anyone could have done to prevent this event.
A321 First Officer reported compressor stall on #2 engine. Flight Crew elected to make an in flight shut down of the affected engine and continue the approach to landing.