Vueling A319 at Florence on Aug 13th 2014, gear fire after landing

Last Update: August 19, 2014 / 13:35:01 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Aug 13, 2014

Classification
Incident

Airline
Vueling

Flight number
VY-1503

Destination
Florence, Italy

Aircraft Registration
EC-JVE

Aircraft Type
Airbus A319

ICAO Type Designator
A319

A Vueling Airbus A319-100, registration EC-JVE performing flight VY-1503 from Paris Orly (France) to Florence (Italy) with 121 passengers, landed on Florence's runway 05 and slowed safely. While vacating the runway smoke was observed from the landing gear prompting the crew to stop clear of the runway, emergency services responded and reported visible flames from the gear prompting the crew to initiate the evacuation of the aircraft via slides. Emergency services applied foam to extinguish the fire. There were no injuries though a pregnant woman was taken to a hospital as a precaution.

Italy's ANSV deployed investigators on site and opened an investigation into the occurrence rated a serious incident.

The French BEA reported in their weekly bulletin on Aug 19th 2014, that while applying the park brake a hydraulic spray leakage occurred on the right main gear, two seconds later the spray caught fire prompting the crew to initiate an emergency evacuation. A post event examination showed the elbow of the brake hose on the right wheel was loose.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Aug 13, 2014

Classification
Incident

Airline
Vueling

Flight number
VY-1503

Destination
Florence, Italy

Aircraft Registration
EC-JVE

Aircraft Type
Airbus A319

ICAO Type Designator
A319

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