Emirates A380 problems

[Georg Burdicek 1]

An Emirates Airbus A380-800, registration A6-EDA performing flight EK201 from Dubai (United Arab Emirates) to New York JFK,NY (USA), had departed Dubai with 14 hours of delay and was about 3 hours into the flight, when an electrical fault prompted the crew to return to Dubai, where the airplane landed safely just before 6am the following day (about 21 hours after scheduled departure).

 

Emirates reported, that the delay before departure had been caused by a faulty fuel pump. While enroute an electrical problem developed, that also left passengers without reading lights and inflight entertainment system, prompting the crew to return to Dubai. The passengers were rebooked onto today's flights to New York and other destinations in the United States.

 

Source: http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4112d58d&opt=0

 

 

No good advertising for the A380....

[Jen Hau 0]

Source: http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4112d58d&opt=0

 

 

No good advertising for the A380....

This is the second problem Emirates A380 faced

[Pieter C. 5]

Emirates Awaits 4th A380, Sees Delay To Fifth

 

December 30, 2008

Dubai airline Emirates, which expects to receive its fourth Airbus A380 later on Tuesday, sees a delay in the delivery of a fifth plane next year, its president said.

 

"It should have been by the end of March but it will now probably be mid-April," Emirates President Tim Clark said on Tuesday.

 

The delivery of the airline's fourth Airbus A380 will take place by year-end as planned, he said.

 

"It comes today. It leaves Hamburg at 1 pm... it will probably arrive around midnight," Clark said.

 

Airbus has been working against the clock to reach its target of a dozen deliveries in 2008 as it recovers from a series of setbacks and two years of production delays.

 

However Airbus warned recently it would miss its 2009 target of 21 superjumbo deliveries by a "couple" of planes.

 

Emirates, the biggest customer of the A380, the world's largest passenger aircraft, received the first of 58 superjumbos in July.

 

(Reuters)

 

[xtemujin 0]

Emergency Exit door opens in explosion on Emirates Airbus A380

By Tom Kelly From: Daily Mail | 16 February 2013 Saturday | 11:27am

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279416/My-terror-27-000ft-Jet-door-blew-open-crew-plugged-gap-blankets-says-Briton.html

Edited February 16, 2013 by xtemujin

[KK Lee 5]

Emergency Exit door opens in explosion on Emirates Airbus A380
By Tom Kelly From: Daily Mail | 16 February 2013 Saturday | 11:27am

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279416/My-terror-27-000ft-Jet-door-blew-open-crew-plugged-gap-blankets-says-Briton.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279416/My-terror-27-000ft-Jet-door-blew-open-crew-plugged-gap-blankets-says-Briton.html

 

If decompression did occurred, oxygen masks would have deployed but is not seen

Edited February 16, 2013 by KK Lee

[Kelson 0]

Some info from my twitter feed:

 

http://sqa.ir/XFgkBF

[Suzanne Goh 0]

Trash journalism at its' finest.

[xtemujin 0]

Incident: Emirates A388 near Hong Kong on Feb 11th 2013, whistling door, passenger claims door opened in flight

By Simon Hradecky, created Saturday, Feb 16th 2013 03:36Z, last updated Saturday, Feb 16th 2013 10:01Z

 

An Emirates Airlines Airbus A380-800, registration A6-EDT performing flight EK-384 from Bangkok (Thailand) to Hong Kong (China), had been enroute at FL410 and continued for a safe landing in Hong Kong 130 minutes after departure from Bangkok.

 

The aircraft departed Hong Kong for its return flight EK-385 on schedule 4 hours after landing and reached Dubai via Bangkok without incident and on schedule.

 

The UK's Daily Mail is quoting a passenger, who claims to hold a private pilot's license and reported, that a cabin door popped like a bomb going off and a gap opened in that door in flight, while the aircraft was at FL270 about 2 hours into the flight. The door became very noisy making any communication difficult, the cabin became freezing. Flight attendants used blankets and pillows to fill the gap, the aircraft did not divert for an emergency landing but continued for a landing in Hong Kong. A photo, that the passenger submitted to the Daily Mail, shows blankets and pillows at the bottom of the cabin door.

 

The airline confirmed a whistling noise from one of the cabin doors during the descent towards Hong Kong.

 

Airbus stated that the door can not open in flight, it opens inwards, the cabin pressure is higher than the ambient pressure and keeps the door tightly shut and in place.

 

The website of the United Arab Emirates GCAA (General Civil Aviation Authority), usually showing opened investigations immediately, does not show an open investigation for that flight as per Feb 16th 03:30Z.

 

Photos, see Emirates A388 in flight over Iran and Emirates A388 in flight over Saudi Arabia posted on airliners.net, show the green indication too that the Daily Mail falsely claims to be an open door indication, these flights in March 2011 and July 2012 however had no incident. The panel identified as a door open indication by the Daily Mail is the "Attendant Indication Panel" (AIP), according to Airbus an alphanumeric display with 2 lines a 16 characters with a red/pink and a green light as "attention getters". Another panel at the aft frame, not visible in the published photo, indicates the status of the door and slide.

 

The Daily Mail had also reported the fall of a United Boeing 757, which according to the Daily Mail quoting a passenger had plunged more than 20,000 feet ("Passengers said the aircraft suddenly 'dipped like a ferry' and cabin crew 'ran down the aisles' while the plane spent two hours flying back in the direction it came from"), see United Airlines jet makes emergency landing after plunging 20,000ft while half-way across the Atlantic, the story completely contradicted by facts as the aircraft drifted down from FL390 to FL280 in a very controlled flight following an engine shut down, see our report of the event at: Incident: United B752 over Atlantic on Jul 15th 2012, engine shut down in flight.

 

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