AAIB report criticises training at Bristol Airport
26.02.08
Engineers at Bristol Airport had not received proper training when they let a flight take off with badly damaged landing gear, a report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) released yesterday said. The engineers maintaining the aircraft had not received adequate training in the use of the computer software supporting the operator's aircraft manuals.
The Thomas Cook Airlines Airbus A320 had landed heavily at Bristol Airport during strong winds in November 2006 after a flight from Cyprus. The next day it was allowed to take off for Lanzarote without being repairs, but the wheels failed to retract and the plane was diverted to Manchester where it made an emergency landing.
The plane was then released for a non-revenue ferry flight back to Bristol, but after take off, the landing gear failed to retract again and the plane had to return to Manchester. It was only after this second landing at Manchester that the ‘substantial damage’ to its landing gear was discovered.
Listing a series of mistakes, the AAIB issued recommendations to tighten procedures.
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