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16th Jan 2008, 19:30
Official report into loss of electrical power on a BA A319 says incident was 'serious', though most systems restored after just 90 seconds.
Flight was out of LHR to Budapest, Oct 22, 2005.
Both primary flight displays and navigation displays went blank, VHF and intercom inoperative, most cockpit lighting out and cabin lights out momentarily, according to AAIB.
76 pax, 6 crew, no reports of terror, flames or dropped books.
Crew heard a "clunk" and flight deck became very dark as Airbus was approaching 20,000ft
Captain used night horizon for ref. Standby instruments were "difficult to see in the poor light", natch.
After discussions between crew and BA maintenance, plane continued to Budapest. AAIB said: "It was not possible to determine the cause of the incident due to a lack of available evidence."
But nine safety recommendations were made in addition to four made in a special AAIB bulletin in 2006.
Crew had not received formal training on how to operate this type of Airbus by sole reference to standby instruments.
The (non-BA) engineer in Budapest did not investigate the incident, which was reported to him verbally by captain and was in the air safety report.
The tech log reflected "minor defects" and the faxed copy of the air safety report was not received by BA’s flight ops safety department or the department responsible for entering the incident on electronic safety management database. This meant the significance of the incident was not fully understood until the original copy of the ASR arrived at Heathrow by post.
So, job done by crew but I'd certainly have wanted someone to find out what caused a 90-secs power loss
Flight was out of LHR to Budapest, Oct 22, 2005.
Both primary flight displays and navigation displays went blank, VHF and intercom inoperative, most cockpit lighting out and cabin lights out momentarily, according to AAIB.
76 pax, 6 crew, no reports of terror, flames or dropped books.
Crew heard a "clunk" and flight deck became very dark as Airbus was approaching 20,000ft
Captain used night horizon for ref. Standby instruments were "difficult to see in the poor light", natch.
After discussions between crew and BA maintenance, plane continued to Budapest. AAIB said: "It was not possible to determine the cause of the incident due to a lack of available evidence."
But nine safety recommendations were made in addition to four made in a special AAIB bulletin in 2006.
Crew had not received formal training on how to operate this type of Airbus by sole reference to standby instruments.
The (non-BA) engineer in Budapest did not investigate the incident, which was reported to him verbally by captain and was in the air safety report.
The tech log reflected "minor defects" and the faxed copy of the air safety report was not received by BA’s flight ops safety department or the department responsible for entering the incident on electronic safety management database. This meant the significance of the incident was not fully understood until the original copy of the ASR arrived at Heathrow by post.
So, job done by crew but I'd certainly have wanted someone to find out what caused a 90-secs power loss