JAL B788 at San Diego on Jun 5th 2019, slat trouble

Last Update: June 7, 2019 / 21:02:25 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jun 5, 2019

Classification
Incident

Flight number
JL-66

Aircraft Registration
JA839J

ICAO Type Designator
B788

A JAL Japan Airlines Boeing 787-8, registration JA839J performing flight JL-66 from Tokyo Narita (Japan) to San Diego,CA (USA), was on approach to San Diego maintaining 5000 feet just being cleared to descend to 4000 feet, when the crew rejected the descent advising they had flight control problems, subsequently explaining they had slat trouble. The crew requested to maintain 5000 feet and head out over the sea, subsequently decided to divert to Los Angeles,CA (USA) requesting runway 25R. The aircraft landed safely on runway 25R at a higher than normal speed (176 knots over ground) about 30 minutes after aborting the approach to San Diego.

The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground in LAX for almost 6 hours, then hopped over to San Diego and arrived at the destination with a delay of 6:20 hours.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jun 5, 2019

Classification
Incident

Flight number
JL-66

Aircraft Registration
JA839J

ICAO Type Designator
B788

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