PSA CRJ2 near Raleigh Durham on Jan 4th 2018, fuel imbalance

Last Update: January 4, 2019 / 23:07:38 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jan 4, 2018

Classification
Incident

Airline
PSA Airlines

Flight number
AA-5562

Departure
Birmingham, United States

Destination
Washington National, United States

Aircraft Registration
N257PS

Aircraft Type
Canadair Corporate Jetliner

ICAO Type Designator
CRJ2

A PSA Airlnes Canadair CRJ-200 on behalf of American Airlines, registration N257PS performing flight AA-5562 from Birmingham,AL to Washington National,DC (USA) with 7 passengers and 3 crew, was enroute at FL290 about 80nm westsouthwest of Raleigh/Durham,NC (USA) when the crew decided to divert to Raleigh/Durham reporting they had a fuel balance issue, their electronic crossfeed had failed, they could only do right turns to have the fuel get more balanced in the turns flowing from the left to the right hand side on gravity. The aircraft landed safely on runway 23R about 25 minutes after leaving FL290.

The occurrence aircraft was able to depart after about 2 hours on the ground and reached Washington with a delay of 2 hours.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jan 4, 2018

Classification
Incident

Airline
PSA Airlines

Flight number
AA-5562

Departure
Birmingham, United States

Destination
Washington National, United States

Aircraft Registration
N257PS

Aircraft Type
Canadair Corporate Jetliner

ICAO Type Designator
CRJ2

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