Air Canada A319 at Bridgetown on Feb 20th 2014, blew both nose wheel tyres during line up
Last Update: February 21, 2014 / 21:31:42 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Feb 20, 2014
Classification
Incident
Airline
Air Canada
Flight number
AC-1241
Departure
Bridgetown, Barbados
Destination
Toronto, Canada
Aircraft Registration
C-GITR
Aircraft Type
Airbus A319
ICAO Type Designator
A319
The runway and airport needed to be closed for about two hours until the passengers had disembarked the aircraft onto the runway, the tyres were replaced on the runway and the aircraft was towed to the apron.
A number of flights scheduled to arrive at Bridgetown needed to divert to Saint Lucia (Saint Lucia) as result.
The incident aircraft was able to depart Bridgetown about 4.5 hours after getting disabled and reached Toronto with a delay of 4:50 hours.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Feb 20, 2014
Classification
Incident
Airline
Air Canada
Flight number
AC-1241
Departure
Bridgetown, Barbados
Destination
Toronto, Canada
Aircraft Registration
C-GITR
Aircraft Type
Airbus A319
ICAO Type Designator
A319
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