Vueling A320 near La Coruna on Sep 1st 2012, knife found in cabin
Last Update: September 2, 2012 / 13:41:33 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Sep 1, 2012
Classification
Incident
Airline
Vueling
Flight number
VY-8374
Departure
La Coruna, Spain
Destination
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Aircraft Registration
EC-HTD
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
The aircraft was able to depart again after about 100 minutes on the ground and reached Amsterdam with a delay of 2.5 hours.
Passengers reported that a father travelling with his little son was manipulating his backpack, when a knife wrapped in a newspaper fell out of the backpack. The flight attendant observed the knife falling and informed the flight deck, the commander decided to return to La Coruna to have the incident checked.
Aena, Spain's airport operator, reported that the man carrying the knife did not represent any danger, was neither aggressive nor violent, and was permitted to continue the flight. Aena is investigating the occurrence and how it was possible that the knife went past security control, the ultimate responsibility of Aena even though outsourced to an external security company. A first reconstruction of the event showed that the knife was difficult to detect due to the type of backpack despite all various filters available on the monitoring equipment.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Sep 1, 2012
Classification
Incident
Airline
Vueling
Flight number
VY-8374
Departure
La Coruna, Spain
Destination
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Aircraft Registration
EC-HTD
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
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