Easyjet A320 at Tenerife on Jun 2nd 2014, fuel emergency

Last Update: May 28, 2019 / 17:45:27 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jun 2, 2014

Classification
Incident

Airline
Easyjet

Departure
Tenerife Norte Los Rodeos, Spain

Destination
Tenerife Sur Sofia Reina, Spain

Aircraft Registration
G-EZUN

Aircraft Type
Airbus A320

ICAO Type Designator
A320

A Easyjet Airbus A320-200, registration G-EZUN performing positioning flight U2-9021 from Tenerife Norte Los Rodeos,CI to Tenerife Sur Sofia Reina,CI (Spain), aborted the approach to Tenerife's South Airport twice due to unfavourable weather conditions and subsequently diverted back to Tenerife's North Airport. When the aircraft could not land at North Airport and needed to go around, the crew declared emergency reporting being low on fuel, positioned for another approach and landed safely.

The French BEA reported in their weekly bulletin that Spain's CIAIAC rated the occurrence a serious incident (indicating the aircraft probably landed below required final fuel reserve) and opened an investigation. The BEA quoted the CIAIAC: "Flight EZY9021 performed two go arounds at GCTS due to adverse meteorological conditions. Then it was diverted to GCXO. There it was unable to land the first time and thus declared short of fuel emergency, landing afterwards without further notice."

G-EZUN had performed flight U2-6949 from Edinburgh,SC (UK) to Tenerife Sur Sofia Reina but had gone around and diverted to Tenerife's Los Rodeos Airport due to weather conditions. The passengers disembarked at Tenerife North Airport and were bussed to the South Airport. The aircraft subsequently attempted to position to South Airport to pick up the passengers for the return flight but ran into the reported serious incident.

The aircraft subsequently managed to position to Sur Airport and performed the return flight U2-6950 reaching Edinburgh with a delay of 2 hours.

Spain's CIAIAC never listed the occurrence in their list of incidents, the occurrence however on May 28th 2019 was mentioned in the final report of another fuel emergency at Tenerife South and North Airports, see Incident: Easyjet A320 at Tenerife on Jun 2nd 2014, fuel emergency. The brief mention in the other final report suggests G-EZUN landed with more than the required minimum fuel.

Metars Sur Sofia Reina:
GCTS 022200Z 00000KT CAVOK 21/14 Q1019 NOSIG
GCTS 022130Z VRB01KT CAVOK 21/14 Q1019 NOSIG
GCTS 022100Z VRB01KT CAVOK 21/14 Q1019 NOSIG
GCTS 022030Z VRB02KT CAVOK 22/14 Q1019 NOSIG
GCTS 022000Z 06011KT CAVOK 23/11 Q1019 WS R08 NOSIG
GCTS 021930Z 07014KT CAVOK 24/10 Q1019 WS R08 NOSIG
GCTS 021900Z 07017KT CAVOK 24/10 Q1018 WS R08 NOSIG
GCTS 021830Z 06019KT CAVOK 25/10 Q1018 WS R08 NOSIG
GCTS 021800Z 07019KT CAVOK 25/11 Q1018 WS R08 NOSIG
GCTS 021730Z 06020KT 9999 FEW025 25/12 Q1018 WS R08 NOSIG
GCTS 021700Z 08019KT 9999 FEW025 25/14 Q1018 WS R08 NOSIG
GCTS 021630Z 07022KT CAVOK 26/12 Q1018 WS R08 NOSIG
GCTS 021600Z 08022KT CAVOK 26/11 Q1018 WS R08 NOSIG
GCTS 021530Z 07022KT 040V100 CAVOK 26/11 Q1018 WS R08 NOSIG
GCTS 021500Z 08022KT CAVOK 26/12 Q1018 WS R08 NOSIG

Metars Los Rodeos:
GCXO 022200Z 27007KT 9999 VCFG FEW000 14/10 Q1022 NOSIG
GCXO 022130Z 27008KT 9999 2200NW BCFG FEW000 13/12 Q1022 NOSIG
GCXO 022100Z 27008KT 9999 4000NW VCFG FEW000 14/13 Q1022 NOSIG
GCXO 022030Z 27008KT 9999 FEW003 14/13 Q1022 NOSIG
GCXO 022000Z 28009KT 9999 FEW003 14/13 Q1022 NOSIG
GCXO 021930Z 29010KT 9999 FEW005 15/13 Q1022 NOSIG
GCXO 021900Z 29010KT 270V330 9999 FEW009 17/13 Q1021 NOSIG
GCXO 021830Z 34007KT 300V020 9999 FEW009 19/10 Q1021 NOSIG
GCXO 021800Z 34008KT 300V020 9999 FEW009 19/10 Q1021 NOSIG
GCXO 021730Z 36007KT 320V030 9999 FEW009 19/10 Q1021 NOSIG
GCXO 021700Z 35010KT 320V030 9999 FEW009 20/11 Q1021 NOSIG
GCXO 021630Z 32009KT 290V030 9999 FEW009 20/12 Q1021 NOSIG
GCXO 021600Z 31010KT 280V350 9999 FEW009 21/12 Q1021 NOSIG
GCXO 021530Z 30011KT 280V340 9999 FEW009 20/13 Q1021 NOSIG