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The same DAL plane that had flight control problems yesterday at KGPT, now has same issue departing KATL
A Delta Airlines Boeing 717-200, registration N965AT performing flight DL-1752 from Atlanta,GA to Savannah,GA (USA) with 116 people on board, was climbing out of Atlanta's runway 09L when the crew stopped the climb at 5000 feet advising they were probably going to return to Atlanta and entered a hold for about 25 minutes, then declared emergency reporting a flight controls issue (avherald.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Those who operate complex equipment in most cases aren't the ones who have to keep it operating properly or repair it when it fails. A clear and accurate description of symptoms is great; however many failures have multiple potential root causes and when it's an intermittent failure, one's troubleshooting ability will have to be relied upon to find the one (or in some cases the more than one) source of the problem. This is never fun; particularly when many lives are on the line!
When I was in the Air Force my specialty was Flight Controls and heavy maintenance. One of the biggest problems in fixing a flaps or slats problem is isolating just what system is causing the problem, is it electrical or hydraulic? On most occasions that I was involved in it was electrical and intermittent. Which of course ground checked okay. I'm not surprised it suffered the same problem two days in a row. My guess it is electrical and I pity those who now have to check miles of wiring for an open in the cable or where the plastic insulation has worn through.
People who write "Aviation ralated articles" should have knowledge of aviation, the guy who wrote this probably knows about steam engines but not aviation...totally ridiculous.
Agreed
Given the high speed landing I would say the flight control problem had to do with the flaps. I do have one question, pilot declares an emergency why was the emergency equipment not standing by at the runway. That to me was an Alert Two situation. Landing at 205 knots even on the longest runway, possibly overweight meant at the very least hot breaks which could lead to a break fire. Even if the pilot does not request the equipment the tower can.
To Tony Perez: I've lost a suction pump in solid IFR and the controller knew exactly what that meant when I stated that. Even small aircraft have an electric turn coordinator and a magnetic compass so navigating the aircraft is not an issue. Controlling it with a "partial panel" involves a higher workload but any comptent and current IFR pilot should be able to handle it with no problem.