Another A310 Rudder Jam
 

An Islandsflug A310 registration TF-ELR made an emergency landing @ DUB about 3 hours ago. It turns out that during a turn on approach the rudder jammed at 1/4 Deflection and would not reset. A/C landed in this configuration, all rudder opc & FUC ok, All rudder pcu inputs inspected,no faults there, now unable to duplicate on ground, Airbus are currently considering thir response to this problem. More Info to follow later.

I hear on the grapevine than another Islandsflug A300-600 had the exact same snag in Hong Kong about a year ago,the fault cleared and the A/C returned to service and to the best of my knowledge hasn@t happened since. Any PPrune pilot's/Engineers ever come accross this kind of a snag on a A310/300-600?

That's very interesting.

I know about takeoffs, where directional control couldn't be maintained, for whatever reason, by rudder (no asymmentric thrust, no draging brakes).

regards

TF-ELR, I do not see that aircraft registration on their fleet list.

The Airbus initiated a go around from about one mile out at 1540 local or so so they clearly kept trying to resolve the problem until decision time. It came back around about 20 minutes later, by which every emergency vehicle in Dublin seemed to have converged on the airport.

What was interesting was that normal line traffic kept landing between the missed approach and eventual landing - are they not supposed to keep the runway clear if there is a pending emergency landing or is this only in fuel critical situations?

Upon listening to the Dublin ATC archive for 1530 to 1600 hrs local, Crew of 8372, made a few referances to the yaw dampers. Dunno if thats where the problem was, Crew seemed things looked good with the controls but wanted fire service in attendance as a precaution.

Fully Belgian crew by the way!

Well done guys!!:ok:

TF-ELR currently operating with AviaJet.

http://images.airliners.net/open.fil...=865364&size=L

There seems to be a history with the the A300's and their rudder's.

The emergency last week into EIDW with aviajet was to do with the the rudder!!. The a/c came into land under full emergency procedures and all pax were in the brace position until the a/c made a full stop.

Why?

Ryan_not_fair:

Well, you should not ask such a question. Only Boeing 737s are 'supposed' to have had inherent problems with a flight control surface. Tolerance for such questions is very small on the eastern side of the Atlantique Ocean. D' accord.

It is impossible for an Airbus product to have such a fault in a system-or so they say on Pprune, depending upon which side of the Atlantik you are from.

Standby for the inquisition.

Never forget - American's yaw damper failed its test and was 're-racked' that fateful morning....