A320 cowlings burst open
 

just saw this in chinese media. Appeared to happen some days ago.
http://pic.carnoc.com/file/160223/16022311310260.jpg

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how can this be ?

Strange. Difficult to see but did they deploy the reverser with the fan cowls unlatched during the run?

Floop!

Just like that. Absolutely unbelievable, exept for the fact that it is all caught on camera.
Airbus surely has some explaining to do after this. It can't be the airspeed that caused this.

I witnessed a similar incident on another type many years ago. The cowlings were unlatched with the aircraft in a hangar and a fire bottle was discharged.

The cowlings behaved exactly as in the video.

Nothing to do with Airbus, poor maintenance practices, RTFM!

Can someone explain what's happening here please? All I see is that the cowling is closed, then open...

Check the video embedded in the article, the stills in the OP don't really tell the story.

That would be my guess.

Agreed. The beacon is flashing which suggests an engine run and you can see what looks like protection mats to the left of the nose gear being blown forward.

Daft buggers!

video appears to be a Dragonair Airbus A320. Video made in hong kong. CASL engineering seem to be the culprits in this case

Reverser functional check post maintenance, as said above RTFM & secure the cowls closed prior to engaging reverse thrust. :ugh:

Reverser functional check at the Gate with the airbridge attached? Madness :=

Hype
 

What a lot of uninformed hype this thread is, just like in the newspapers people who have no understanding of a subject ( let alone having ever shut an Airbus engine cowl ) and yet they tell us that Airbus have some explaining to do !

The only explaining that has to be done is why the cowl had not been secured post maintenance.............. Oh ! And why these clueless idiots are allowed on a professional aviation forum ?

EASA have proposed a modification:-

http://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/EASA_P...f/PAD_16-009_1

Looks like a design developed in a clean and isolated office...
Do we seriously expect mechanics to enter the cockpit to get/store a key before they do open and after they close a fan cowl? It won´t take a week until all mechanics have some sort of master key in their pocket in order to be able to finish their job before the end of their shift.

Perhaps, but the key stays in the latch until they are locked. It's not perfect but it is another check item. "Have I got my latch key? No. bugger, still in the unlocked cowling."

Settle A and C,

That's what everybody except Fox Nine has said/intimated...

Only one has suggested Airbus procedures responsible. :ouch:

I'm in total agreement with nightstop.

I can't speak for the A3230, but I know on the B737 it's certainly a big no-no to deploy reversers during an engine run.

And with the air bridge still attached, I'm surprised the cowlings are the only incident here!

I guess this this is one way to check the cowl latches without crawling around on one's knees. :)

EASA have proposed a modification:-

http://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/EASA_P...f/PAD_16-009_1




wouldn't it be easier to remove the git who left the flaps open...Do this a few times and the message sinks in.