diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/pipeline/s3images.py b/scrapy/contrib/pipeline/s3images.py
index 2a50a9ca1..0bde3be67 100644
--- a/scrapy/contrib/pipeline/s3images.py
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/pipeline/s3images.py
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ class S3ImagesPipeline(BaseImagesPipeline):
 
         """
         if self.AmazonS3Spider:
-            return scrapyengine.download(request, self.AmazonS3Spider)
+            return scrapyengine.schedule(request, self.AmazonS3Spider)
         return self.download(request, info)