American B763 near New York on May 15th 2012, flight control and computer problems
Last Update: May 17, 2012 / 17:33:14 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
May 15, 2012
Airline
American Airlines
Flight number
AA-837
Departure
New York JFK, United States
Destination
Port au Prince, Haiti
Aircraft Registration
N352AA
Aircraft Type
Boeing 767-300
ICAO Type Designator
B763
After maintenance replaced the mode control panel the incident aircraft positioned back to New York after about 7 hours on the ground and resumed service from New York.
A replacement Boeing 767-300 registration N388AA departed Washington about 9 hours after landing and was enroute at FL360 about 130nm north of Miami,FL when the crew decided to divert to Miami due to a technical problem. The aircraft landed safely on Miami's runway 26L about 30 minutes later. This aircraft was able to resume service from Miami about 6.5 hours later.
Another Boeing 767-300 registration N366AA finally reached Port au Prince with a delay of 22.5 hours.
N352AA had been in the climb out of New York when the first officer's flight director indicators as well as the captain's air speed bug were removed from displays after the right autopilot got engaged. The aircraft subsequently experienced multiple flight director, autopilot and autothrottle anomalies prompting the crew to divert to Washington. N388AA diverted to Miami because both HF radios became inoperative preventing the aircraft from entering Caribbean Airspace.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
May 15, 2012
Airline
American Airlines
Flight number
AA-837
Departure
New York JFK, United States
Destination
Port au Prince, Haiti
Aircraft Registration
N352AA
Aircraft Type
Boeing 767-300
ICAO Type Designator
B763
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