Easyjet Switzerland A320 near Zagreb on Nov 13th 2019, big bang on nose then weather radar failure
Last Update: January 20, 2023 / 18:09:51 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Nov 13, 2019
Classification
Incident
Airline
Easyjet Switzerland
Flight number
U2-1437
Departure
Geneva, Switzerland
Destination
Belgrade, Serbia
Aircraft Registration
HB-JXO
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
Serbia's Center of Investigations of Accidents in Transportation (CINS) rated the occurrence a serious incident causing minor damage and opened an investigation. The nose cone was found dented, no traces of birds, weather balloons or other physical causes were identified.
The CINS released their final report in Serbian only (Editorial note: to serve the purpose of global prevention of the repeat of causes leading to an occurrence an additional timely release of all occurrence reports in the only world spanning aviation language English would be necessary, a Serbian only release does not achieve this purpose as set by ICAO annex 13 and just forces many aviators to waste much more time and effort each in trying to understand the circumstances leading to the occurrence. Aviators operating internationally are required to read/speak English besides their local language, investigators need to be able to read/write/speak English to communicate with their counterparts all around the globe).
The report concludes:
Immediate cause
During the flight, the radar dome suffers a load due to the high speeds of the air current in it zone. This dome had a repair in the central zone with a diameter of 920 mm.
The repair did not provide sufficient structural endurance to the air current load so that cracking occurred in the external formwork, honeycomb and internal formwork.
Indirect causes
Improper turret repair. The repair was not done according to the instructions given in the CMM which caused the reduced structural durability of the radar dome.
Aircraft Registration Data
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Nov 13, 2019
Classification
Incident
Airline
Easyjet Switzerland
Flight number
U2-1437
Departure
Geneva, Switzerland
Destination
Belgrade, Serbia
Aircraft Registration
HB-JXO
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
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