JetBlue TrueBlue - Jetblue A320 at Las Vegas on Jun 17th 2012, two hydraulic systems failed




Bobster
Jun 20, 12, 8:10 pm
This incident happened on Sunday, but it apparently wasn't until yesterday that avherald.com had the story and other news sources then followed up.

Nothing official, but from what I picked up on various forums, there was a complete failure of the green hydraulic system and the yellow system was shut down temporarily due to overheating. With only the blue system remaining, that caused a loss of yaw damper, among other problems, that resulted in a very uncomfortable 4 hours with many passengers vomiting from the yawing motions.

Jetblue A320 at Las Vegas on Jun 17th 2012, two hydraulic systems failed (http://avherald.com/h?article=45165c68)

JetBlue Airbus's mechanical meltdown sends it 'careering wildly through the skies' for FOUR hours (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2162012/JetBlue-planes-mechanical-meltdown-sends-careering-wildly-skies-FOUR-hours.html)

It's surprising that it took so long for this to make news, considering that there was a Daily News columnist on the flight and many others were tweeting.


cblaisd
Jun 20, 12, 9:26 pm
Per http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-news/1184086-welcome-travel-news-what-should-posted-here-what-should-posted-elsewhere.html I'll move to the correct forum while leaving a 30-day re-direct here.

cblaisd
Moderator, Travel News

chrissxb
Jun 21, 12, 4:12 pm
here's the mp3 from ATC: http://www.avweb.com/other/jetblue194.mp3


mickeydfly13
Jun 22, 12, 4:47 pm
Nice job by the crew getting that bird down with everyone safe.

LarryJ
Jun 24, 12, 9:41 am
Nice job by the crew getting that bird down with everyone safe.
It really wasn't that big of a problem. That's why the airplane has three hydraulic systems.

alexbellamy
Jun 27, 12, 7:34 pm
It really wasn't that big of a problem. That's why the airplane has three hydraulic systems.

A double hyds fail leaves only a few hydraulic surfaces powered. Always a fun event.

nerd
Jun 27, 12, 9:26 pm
It really wasn't that big of a problem. That's why the airplane has three hydraulic systems.I kinda pay attention to these things, but I've never heard of pax going on a 3-hour vomit comet ride.

Sounds unusual, no? :confused:



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