Airbus A300 Tailstrike On takeoff
During takeoff, as the aircraft was accelerating at 40 knots, it pitched up and its tail touched the ground violently. The crew abandoned the takeoff and returned to the parking area…. Continue Reading →
Airbus A310 Loss Of Rudder In Flight
During the landing flare, the rudder control inputs were not effective in correcting for a slight crab. The aircraft landed and taxied to the gate. After shutdown, it was discovered that the aircraft rudder was missing. Small pieces of the rudder were still attached to the vertical stabilizer…. Continue Reading →
Airbus A319 Inadvertent Selection Of Parking Brake On Landing
On approach the captain inadvertently selected the parking brake to ON after the first officer had called for full flap. The application of the parking brake was not detected prior to touchdown. All four main landing gear tyres deflated on landing…. Continue Reading →
Airbus A310 Runway Overrun and Crash
The A310 ran down the runway, overran the runway threshold and collided with barriers, broke apart and burst into flames…. Continue Reading →
Airbus A320 CFIT During Go Around
During a go-around in bad weather conditions, The Airbus A320 stalled in turn. The aircraft was completely destroyed due to impact with the water…. Continue Reading →
Airbus A320 Near CFIT
On a flight from Alexandria, Egypt to Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, the crew carried out two approaches using the Addis Abeba VOR and associated DME. On the second approach the aircraft crossed over a ridge of high ground in IMC and came within 56 ft of terrain at a location 5 nm to the northeast of…… Continue Reading →
Airbus A320 Collision with a Tug
After receiving taxi clearance from Air Traffic Control, the A320 started moving under its own power. Shortly afterwards it collided with the tractor that had just performed the pushback, damaging the right engine and the tractor…. Continue Reading →
Airbus A320 Total Electrical Failure During Climb
As the aircraft climbed to FL 200 with autopilot and autothrust engaged, there was a major electrical failure. This resulted in the loss or degradation of a number of important aircraft systems. The crew reported that both the captain's and co-pilot's PFDs and NDs went blank, as did the upper ECAM display. The autopilot and…… Continue Reading →
Airbus A320 Tailstrike On Landing
The crew were carrying out a manually flown ILS approach without the use of flight directors or autothrust. At 530 ft agl the aircraft was well above the normal 3º glideslope. The glideslope was not regained until shortly before landing, and by then the speed was below approach speed (VAPP) and the descent rate was…… Continue Reading →
Airbus A320 Visual Approach On The Wrong Airport
The crew judged that they were too high to carry out a safe landing from the ILS approach and requested permission from ATC to carry out a visual approach. The aircraft then flew a right descending orbit and a visual circuit, from which it landed. Upon landing, the crew were advised by ATC that they…… Continue Reading →
Airbus A321 Nosewheel Axle Failure
While taxiing to the gate, the flight crew heard a noise from the nose landing gear area. As the aircraft turned onto the lead-in line at the gate, the ground marshallers observed that the right-hand nosewheel was missing… Continue Reading →
Airbus A320 Hard Landing
The aircraft landed heavily, causing substantial damage to the aircraft’s main landing gear. It touched down with a high rate of descent, following a late initiation of the flare by the co-pilot, who was undergoing line training…. Continue Reading →
Airbus A321 Roll Oscillations On Landing
At approximately 140 feet AGL, on final approach to Runway 24R with full flaps selected, the aircraft experienced roll oscillations. The flight crew levelled the wings and the aircraft touched down firmly. During the approach, the aircraft had accumulated mixed ice on areas of the wing and the leading edge of the horizontal stabilizer that…… Continue Reading →
Airbus A330 Landing With Both Engines Shut Down
An Airbus 330 aircraft, was on a scheduled flight from Toronto (Canada) to Lisbon (Portugal) when the crew noted a fuel imbalance. Shortly after, the crew initiated a diversion from the flight-planned route for a landing at the Lajes Airport, Terceira Island in the Azores…. Continue Reading →
Airbus A330 Emergency Descent
The aircraft made an emergency descent from FL350 and the Captain requested a diversion to Shannon…. Continue Reading →