Final Report B772 (9V-SWC), en route northern Indian Ocean, 16 Apr 2014

Final Report B772 (9V-SWC), en route northern Indian Ocean, 16 Apr 2014

Publication info
Author
TSIB (Singapore)
Category
Airworthiness Human Factors Loss of Control
Date of publication
12/06/2018

On 16 April 2014, a pre-flight concern about whether a Boeing 777-200ER about to depart Singapore had been overfuelled was resolved by a manual check but an en-route fuel system alert led to close monitoring of the fuel system. When a divergent discrepancy between the two independent fuel remaining sources became apparent, an uneventful precautionary air turnback was made and overfuelling subsequently confirmed. The Investigation found that a system fault had caused overfuelling and that the manual check carried out to confirm the actual fuel load had failed to detect it because it had been not been performed correctly.

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