THY A333 at Cape Town on Jan 2nd 2020, could not retract landing gear

Last Update: February 12, 2020 / 21:57:12 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jan 2, 2020

Classification
Incident

Cause
Could not retract landing gear

Airline
THY Turkish Airlines

Flight number
TK-45

Departure
Cape Town, South Africa

Destination
Istanbul, Turkey

Aircraft Registration
TC-JNI

Aircraft Type
Airbus A330-300

ICAO Type Designator
A333

A THY Turkish Airlines Airbus A330-300, registration TC-JNI performing flight TK-45 from Cape Town (South Africa) to Istanbul (Turkey), was climbing out of Cape Town's runway 19 when the crew was unable to retract the landing gear and stopped the climb at FL080. The aircraft entered a hold to work the checklists and burn off fuel. After about two hours in the hold the aircraft set course to divert to Johannesburg (South Africa), climbed to FL200 at first, later FL220. The aircraft landed safely on Johannesburg's runway 03R about 4:20 hours after departure. The aircraft taxied to the apron with emergency services in trail.

Multiple witnesses on the ground in Cape Town reported the aircraft climbed out with the landing gear remaining extended.

On Feb 12th 2020 South Africa's CAA reported they rated the occurrence a serious incident and opened an investigation. Following departure, upon gear retraction, the crew received a left main gear fault message. With the gear remaining extended the crew performed troubleshooting and communicated with dispatch and maintenance to solve the issue. Dispatch recommended to divert to Johannesburg because better maintenance facilities were available there, the crew therefore diverted to Johannesburg. Maintenance performed gear swings and found proximity sensors on the pitch trim system on the right main gear out of rig, rigged the sensors on the right hand gear (although the ECAM fault was on the left gear) and subsequently performed gear swings without any further fault. The aircraft was returned to service.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jan 2, 2020

Classification
Incident

Cause
Could not retract landing gear

Airline
THY Turkish Airlines

Flight number
TK-45

Departure
Cape Town, South Africa

Destination
Istanbul, Turkey

Aircraft Registration
TC-JNI

Aircraft Type
Airbus A330-300

ICAO Type Designator
A333

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