Final Report A320 (EC-HTD) en route NW of Granada Spain, 21 Feb 2017

Final Report A320 (EC-HTD) en route NW of Granada Spain, 21 Feb 2017

Publication info
Author
CIAIAC (Spain)
Category
Airworthiness Loss of Control
Date of publication
30/07/2018

On 21 February 2017, an Airbus A320 despatched with the APU inoperative experienced successive failures of both air conditioning and pressurisation systems, the second of which occurred at FL300 and prompted the declaration of a MAYDAY and an emergency descent followed by an uneventful diversion to Alicante. The Investigation found that the cause of the dual failure was likely to have been the undetectable and undetected degradation of the aircraft bleed air regulation system and whilst noting a possibly contributory maintenance error recommended that a new scheduled maintenance task to check components in the aircraft type bleed system be established.

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