EY Emergency Landing in BNE

[jetlagger]

Just heard on the wire that an EY 330 made an emergency landing at BNE a short time ago.
Any more information?

 

[iRobbo]

Landed safely, was overweight. Apparently an airspeed indicator problem

 

[UP4014]

Wasn't that the cause of the Air France's 330 crash, an "airspeed indicator problem". Or was it some other gizmo and the actual airspeed or lack of it was the problem.

Matt

 

[mannej]

Wasn't that the cause of the Air France's 330 crash, an "airspeed indicator problem". Or was it some other gizmo and the actual airspeed or lack of it was the problem.

Matt

It wasn't the sole reason behind the crash, just part of the chain of events all aligning up

 

[UP4014]

It wasn't the sole reason behind the crash, just part of the chain of events all aligning up

Thanks, I seem to remember Air France changing all their Airbus pitot tubes after it.

 

[jetlagger]

Landed safely, was overweight. Apparently an airspeed indicator problem

Must have been carrying a lot of freight. Only 175 pax on board.

 

[albatross710]

Will be interesting to hear the facts. ABC news reported the aircraft requested a pattern to burn fuel for 90 minutes prior to the landing. They had a voice recording of the pilot declaring a mayday.

 

[mannej]

Thanks, I seem to remember Air France changing all their Airbus pitot tubes after it.

As with most crashes, it was caused by a number of reasons not just the failed pitots.

 

[mannej]

Must have been carrying a lot of freight. Only 175 pax on board.

332 or 333?

 

[omgbomb]

332 or 333?

332. Have a friend on the flight, sounds pretty awful. They had already aborted a take-off, were in the brace position after take-off on the second attempt. Passengers still in the terminal without any directions or information

 

[markis10]

Must have been carrying a lot of freight. Only 175 pax on board.

Does not take much to be overweight, 8 hours of fuel will normally do it regardless of the self load freight and freight load.

 

[jetlagger]

I noticed the EY bird in question parked at the southern apron of BNE INT a couple of hours ago, so situation obviously not resolved.

 

[omgbomb]

They've offered to put them on the same plane at the original time tomorrow, pathetic. They waited until late this evening to offer them just that.

 

[mannej]

They've offered to put them on the same plane at the original time tomorrow, pathetic. They waited until late this evening to offer them just that.

In extreme cases such as this, there probably isn't an awful lot they can do.

It is one of those how long is a piece of string situations without knowing the full details.

 

[lovestotravel]

I would assume they are all in hotels by now? well hours ago???

 

[Major]

A bit more info from AV herald

Incident: Etihad A332 at Brisbane on Nov 21st 2013, "we lost our airspeed"

 

[markis10]

In extreme cases such as this, there probably isn't an awful lot they can do.

It is one of those how long is a piece of string situations without knowing the full details.

I agree, especially given there would have been no more day flights with other carriers to SIN, the next being at OMG o'clock and there are no spares lying idle at BNE.

 

[markis10]

It turned out to be a wasp problem.

Investigation: AO-2013-212 - Air data system failure involving Airbus A330-243, A6-EYJ, near Brisbane Airport, Qld on 21 November 2013

Subsequently, the pitot probes (which measure airspeed information that is sent to the ADIRUs) were visually inspected. The inspection found that there was an internal obstruction of the captain’s probe, while the first officer’s and standby probes were clear. The captain’s probe was removed from the aircraft and sent to the probe manufacturer in the USA. Examination showed that it had been almost completely blocked by an insect nest, composed of sand and mud, that was consistent with the nest of a ‘mud-dauber’ wasp.

 

[docjames]

If any doubt how dangerous this is….

Birgenair Flight 301 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[eastwest101]

If any doubt how dangerous this is….

Birgenair Flight 301 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yes - the Birgenair B757 was parked for 20 days or so and allowed mud wasps to build a nest in one of the the pitot tubes, but, given the EY A330 would only have been on the ground for a few hours at BNE (maybe overnight at most?) it is interesting to note how quickly those wasps can apparently build a nest or maybe build up an obstruction over time, with one final grain of sand/mud being the difference between an embarrasing emergency and something even worse.