Iberia Express A320 at Tenerife on Feb 9th 2024, landed below minimum fuel

Last Update: July 27, 2026 / 16:41:39 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Feb 9, 2024

Classification
Report

Airline
Iberia Express

Departure
Madrid, Spain

Destination
Tenerife North, Spain

Aircraft Registration
EC-JFH

Aircraft Type
Airbus A320

ICAO Type Designator
A320

An Iberia Express Airbus A320-200, registration EC-JFH performing a flight from Madrid,SP to Tenerife North,CI (Spain) with 165 passengers and 12 crew, was on approach to Tenerife North when the crew needed to enter hold for about 25 minutes due to low visibility procedures in use at the destination. Subsequently the crew attempted an approach, but needed to initiate a go around due to poor visibility. After the go around the crew decided to divert to Tenerife South,CI (Spain), there were 2100kg of fuel still on board. The aircraft climbed to FL110. Enroute the crew requested a number of short cuts in order to save fuel, eventually declared Mayday due to being low on fuel, and landed on Tenerife South's runway 25 about 25 minutes after the go-around.

Spain's CIAIAC reported the aircraft touched down with 1105 kg of fuel remaining (1190kg minimum fuel), released their final report in Spanish 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 Spanish only or no 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 the probable cause of the incident was:

The investigation has established that the cause of the incident was an inaccurate calculation of the fuel required to reach the alternate destination airport, GCTS.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Feb 9, 2024

Classification
Report

Airline
Iberia Express

Departure
Madrid, Spain

Destination
Tenerife North, Spain

Aircraft Registration
EC-JFH

Aircraft Type
Airbus A320

ICAO Type Designator
A320

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