Frontier A321 near Indianapolis on Dec 4th 2016, fuel system problems

Last Update: December 5, 2016 / 16:05:11 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Dec 4, 2016

Classification
Incident

Flight number
F9-1334

Aircraft Registration
N710FR

Aircraft Type
Airbus A321

ICAO Type Designator
A321

A Frontier Airlines Airbus A321-200, registration N710FR performing flight F9-1334 from Chicago O'Hare,IL to West Palm Beach,FL (USA) with 205 passengers and 7 crew, was enroute at FL350 about 30nm south of Indianapolis,IN (USA) when the crew decided to divert to Indianapolis due to a problem with the fuel transfer to the wing tanks and concerns of a possible fuel leak. The aircraft landed safely on Indianapolis' runway 23R about 22 minutes later, no fuel leak was discovered.

The occurrence aircraft had departed Chicago with a delay of 6 hours. A replacement Airbus A320-200 registration N214FR reached West Palm Beach with a total delay of 10 hours.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Dec 4, 2016

Classification
Incident

Flight number
F9-1334

Aircraft Registration
N710FR

Aircraft Type
Airbus A321

ICAO Type Designator
A321

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