Easyjet A319 at Bristol on Jun 30th 2016, inadvertent flaps retraction instead of gear
Last Update: September 14, 2017 / 13:55:36 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Jun 30, 2016
Classification
Report
Airline
Easyjet
Flight number
U2-6253
Departure
Bristol, United Kingdom
Destination
Lisbon, Portugal
Aircraft Registration
G-EZEW
Aircraft Type
Airbus A319
ICAO Type Designator
A319
The AAIB released their bulletin releasing following conclusion:
The operator realised that the flap mis-selection event to G-EZEW was not an isolated event and carried out a study into similar incidents with assistance from the manufacturer.
The operator was concerned about the risk associated with aircraft being in a low energy state near to the ground, including performance risks and the possibility that crew members would become confused leading to a loss of situational awareness.
Information from the manufacturer indicated that properly-computed takeoff performance calculations, combined with the aircraft’s Alpha/Speed Lock and Alpha Floor protection functions, would allow the aircraft to climb safely following a flap mis-selection event, even when combined with other, adverse, factors. Aircraft climb performance following early flap retraction would exceed one engine inoperative climb performance.
The operator began to focus training effort on avoiding the mis-selection of switches and levers, and amended its SOPs with the same intention. However, a similar event occurred to a pilot shortly after he underwent that training and he wondered subsequently whether, by focussing on not making the action slip, he had brought it about. This hypothesis would be supported by the comment of the pilot of G-EZEW in this report who stated that, while waiting for the instruction to raise the landing gear, he had been thinking about an earlier mis-selection event by another crew at his home base.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Jun 30, 2016
Classification
Report
Airline
Easyjet
Flight number
U2-6253
Departure
Bristol, United Kingdom
Destination
Lisbon, Portugal
Aircraft Registration
G-EZEW
Aircraft Type
Airbus A319
ICAO Type Designator
A319
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