View Full Version : Again: Onur Air at Eindhoven
EDDNHopper
1st Jun 2005, 18:17
The media are at it again: today an Onur Air A 321 was apparantly evacuated shortly before t/o due to spilling fuel. "An airport employee [RTL news says: the airport director] noticed the spilling fuel out of his office window and set off the alarm" (Spiegel Online (http://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/0,1518,358611,00.html) and others).
All this in the light of the recent ban and its lifting. Anybody here to shed some light on this - media hysteria or serious incident?
seat 0A
2nd Jun 2005, 10:38
Lots of pictures and video at:
Onur Air (http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/21388261/Weer_problemen_met_toestel_Onur_Air.html)
Unfortunately the text is in Dutch.
Apparently there was something wrong with a fuel valve.
Airplane eventually flew back to Turkey empty.
Pegasus77
2nd Jun 2005, 10:53
Highlights translated:
Tourists who chose Onur Air had to pay a high price again for a faulty aircraft. An Airbus of the Turkish lowcost airline was leaking kerosene during taxi-out. The firebrigade came into action, but the pax left the aircraft via the normal exits.
CEO De Boer of Eindhoven AP saw from his office fuel leaking from one of the wings. The IVW (inspection) immediately sent 3 inspectors. Last tuesday the airline was granted permission again to fly to the NL, after some incidents caused this permission to be denied on the 12th of May.
A first inspection showed a faulty connection on a fuel valve. The problem was in the electronics that take care of the movements of fuel in the wings.
The Onur board said the leaking of fuel from a wing was only a minor defect.
The cause for the fault is not determined yet, and will be investigated by the IVW. The pax were never in danger. The aircraft was fitted with 'ribbels' (?? P77) on the wings which prevented the fuel from flowing to the hot engines.
The Turkish authorities proposed the aircraft to be ferried to Turkey around 5:30pm. The pax left later that night with an Onur-flight from Schiphol.
The Dutch and Turkish authorities claimed that this problem did not have anything to do with the load and balance problem, the maintenance and leasing of aircraft for which they were denied landing rights in NL, and for which Onur has promised improvements.
The IVW said that no one should point fingers at Onur now. This could happen to everyone, and shouldn't be seen as bad maintenance. Onur-manager Aksak said it was a relatively new airplane that belongs to the Onurfleet since May 12th. It is bought from China Airlines. Onur-lawyer Vreede said it is leased from the US-leasing-company ILFC. Onur, like many other airlines, flies with leased a/c.
P77
sleeper
2nd Jun 2005, 12:47
"Minor leak"?
Video shows a steady stream like a large shower and that for approximately 10 minutes
Diabolo
3rd Jun 2005, 06:44
After their come back in the Netherland one more incident involving an A320 at Eindhoven...
What kind of action did the managment took about the safety...
I just wonder?
Onur Air plane leaks fuel at airport
1 June 2005
AMSTERDAM — A plane operated by Turkish airline Onur Air leaked kerosene shortly before its planned take-off for the Turkish resort of Antalya from Eindhoven Airport on Wednesday morning.
"I saw from my office fuel leaking out of one of the wings," the regional airport\'s director, B. de Boer, told local broadcaster Omroep Brabant.
The plane was still on the loading platform at the time and firefighters took immediate emergency precautions. All 138 passengers and five crew members exited the plane via the normal exits.
The leak was closed soon after and an airport spokeswoman said the cause of the problem is under investigation.
The traffic safety inspectorate
IVW has dispatched two investigators and a supervisor to Eindhoven. An IVW spokesman said a considerable amount of fuel was leaked, possibly from the plane\'s fuel filling point.
An Onur Air spokesman could not explain how the incident occurred. "Our technicians are investigating the matter. Only when that investigation is rounded off will we know more. This could happen to anyone," he said.
The passengers were gathered together and given assistance by Eindhoven Airport, but it was not immediately certain whether they would be able to depart for Turkey later on Wednesday.
If serious defects are found in the plane, Onur Air said it would deploy a replacement plane. If the problem can be fixed quickly, the passengers may still be able to depart in the same plane.
The incident comes just a week after the Netherlands lifted a flight ban imposed on the airline on 12 May. The ban was imposed after a series of safety incidents.
Dutch and Turkish authorities met to discuss the situation and the IVW agreed to lift the ban based on safety measures Onur Air agreed to take and an action plan drawn up by Turkish safety authorities.
However, the agreement also specified that Onur Air was to remain under intense scrutiny.
The IVW will make contact with Turkish authorities as soon as the results of inquiries in Eindhoven are known.
In a statement in the newspapers the IVW (dutch CAA) called this is incident a minor incident.
It also stated it wouldn't revoke landing rights on the basis of this, as it needed major (previously discovered) incidents.
Looks like a healthy attitude to a technical problem.
Although pretty important, it could happen to every airline.
Lets hope they solve the "luggage blocking exits" and all further discrepancies.
Gr.
Spuis