Hawaiian B763 over Pacific on Dec 19th 2017, failure of weather radar

Last Update: December 20, 2017 / 21:42:52 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Dec 19, 2017

Classification
Incident

Flight number
HA-43

Aircraft Registration
N594HA

Aircraft Type
Boeing 767-300

ICAO Type Designator
B763

A Hawaiian Airlines Boeing 767-300, registration N594HA performing flight HA-43 from San Jose,CA to Honolulu,HI (USA), was enroute at FL340 over the Pacific Ocean about 350nm west of San Jose when the crew decided to return to San Jose due to a failed weather radar. The aircraft descended to FL330 for the way back, burned off fuel and landed safely back in San Jose about 4 hours after the decision to return.

The aircraft was repaired, departed the following morning again and reached Honolulu as flight HA-43A with a delay of 19 hours.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Dec 19, 2017

Classification
Incident

Flight number
HA-43

Aircraft Registration
N594HA

Aircraft Type
Boeing 767-300

ICAO Type Designator
B763

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