Vueling A320 at Barcelona on Mar 20th 2013, failure of nose wheel steering

Last Update: March 23, 2013 / 19:16:29 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Mar 20, 2013

Classification
Incident

Airline
Vueling

Flight number
VY-1574

Departure
Oviedo, Spain

Destination
Barcelona, Spain

Aircraft Registration
EC-ICS

Aircraft Type
Airbus A320

ICAO Type Designator
A320

A Vueling Airbus A320-200, registration EC-ICS performing flight VY-1574 from Oviedo,SP to Barcelona,SP (Spain) with 168 passengers, was on final approach to Barcelona's runway 25R when the aircraft went around from about 700 feet reporting problems with the nose wheel steering and entered a hold at 4000 feet to run the relevant checklists. The aircraft landed safely on Barcelona's runway 25R about 25 minutes later. The aircraft was towed off the runway.

The incident aircraft was able to resume service about 20 hours after landing.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Mar 20, 2013

Classification
Incident

Airline
Vueling

Flight number
VY-1574

Departure
Oviedo, Spain

Destination
Barcelona, Spain

Aircraft Registration
EC-ICS

Aircraft Type
Airbus A320

ICAO Type Designator
A320

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