A-340 Makes emergency landing at YVR

[Bwatchful]

Friday, December 14 - 03:46:50 PM News1130 Staff
RICHMOND (NEWS1130) - An Airbus has made an emergency landing at YVR this evening, after reporting a flap problem shortly after taking off.. The flight has 290 people on board including passengers and crew. The Cathay Pacific Airbus was leaving for Hong Kong from YVR when the pilot dispatched tower with the emergency, and began dumping fuel prior to landing. The plane successfully touched down at YVR at 5:00pm.

[4 driver]

No big deal....dumped 50T (or whatever), landed. Turned out to be an inidcation problem so they refueled and left.
Wonder what they did for crew though; ...had to be a fifteen hour duty originally...three hour troubleshoot?? anyone answer their phones??
The YVR press sure had fun. Terror sells !
I heard they even shut down traffic on one of the bridges during Friday rushhour. Even with an overrun of the active runway; it's not even close to that bridge!
no big deal...

[TheChitterneFlyer]

I'm no expert on the A340, but what was all the fuss about a simple 'indication problem' that warranted an emergency landing? :confused:

[HotDog]

False indication of flap extension, flap speed limit? No flight engineer, so dump 50 tons of fuel and return.:E