Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe
Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Flight Crew Returned To Departure Airport; General Flight Cancelled / Delayed; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft
[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.
E170 First Officer reported that a FLAP FAIL EICAS warning resulted in a return to the departure airport.