Cathay A333 near Hong Kong on Jun 11th 2016, problems with fly by wire system
Last Update: June 13, 2016 / 21:09:27 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Jun 11, 2016
Classification
Incident
Airline
Cathay Pacific
Flight number
CX-412
Departure
Hong Kong, China
Destination
Seoul, South Korea
Aircraft Registration
B-HLF
Aircraft Type
Airbus A330-300
ICAO Type Designator
A333
A replacement Airbus A330-300 registration B-HLU reached Seoul with a delay of 4 hours.
The airline reported a mechanical problem within the flight control system occurred prompting the crew to return to Hong Kong as a precaution. A replacement aircraft took the passengers to Seoul.
Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department reported that the flight control system depending on hydraulics controlled by electronic devices making decisions on a variety of flight data computations, in total called fly by wire, suffered a problem. It is unclear whether the problem was associated with the hydraulics, electronics or displays, the system failed to show normal calculation data.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Jun 11, 2016
Classification
Incident
Airline
Cathay Pacific
Flight number
CX-412
Departure
Hong Kong, China
Destination
Seoul, South Korea
Aircraft Registration
B-HLF
Aircraft Type
Airbus A330-300
ICAO Type Designator
A333
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