American B752 near Nassau on Dec 11th 2012, door indication
Last Update: December 15, 2012 / 23:23:19 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Dec 11, 2012
Classification
Incident
Airline
American Airlines
Flight number
AA-221
Departure
Miami, United States
Destination
Recife, Brazil
Aircraft Registration
N172AJ
Aircraft Type
Boeing 757-200
ICAO Type Designator
B752
The flight was cancelled. The door was rigged and the aircraft returned to service.
The incident aircraft had another similiar incident two days later, see Incident: American B752 near New York on Dec 13th 2012, door indication.
Following the repeat incident on Dec 13th the aircraft underwent extended door maintenance, a test flight AA-9615 was conducted and the aircraft returned to service.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Dec 11, 2012
Classification
Incident
Airline
American Airlines
Flight number
AA-221
Departure
Miami, United States
Destination
Recife, Brazil
Aircraft Registration
N172AJ
Aircraft Type
Boeing 757-200
ICAO Type Designator
B752
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