Berlin A332 at Berlin on Oct 1st 2016, rejected takeoff due to air conditioning problem
Last Update: October 4, 2016 / 00:02:43 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Oct 1, 2016
Classification
Incident
Cause
Rejected takeoff
Airline
Air Berlin
Flight number
AB-7420
Departure
Berlin Tegel, Germany
Destination
Chicago O'Hare, United States
Aircraft Registration
D-ALPB
Aircraft Type
Airbus A330-200
ICAO Type Designator
A332
A passenger reported after coming to a stop at the stand the crew announced there had been a problem with a valve on the left hand engine (PW4168) so that the engine could not deliver full takeoff power, this wasn't an actual engine problem but had to do with the air conditioning. The passenger annotated that both German and English announcements did not mention the word "bleed valve" ...
The aircraft departed about 75 minutes after the rejected takeoff and reached Chicago with a total delay of 90 minutes.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Oct 1, 2016
Classification
Incident
Cause
Rejected takeoff
Airline
Air Berlin
Flight number
AB-7420
Departure
Berlin Tegel, Germany
Destination
Chicago O'Hare, United States
Aircraft Registration
D-ALPB
Aircraft Type
Airbus A330-200
ICAO Type Designator
A332
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