Sky Airline A320 near Punta Arenas on Dec 9th 2016, technical problem
Last Update: December 14, 2016 / 22:12:20 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Dec 9, 2016
Classification
Incident
Airline
Sky Airline
Flight number
H2-8
Departure
Punta Arenas, Chile
Destination
Santiago, Chile
Aircraft Registration
CC-ABW
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
A passenger reported the crew made no announcement to the cause of the return. After landing after the passengers had disembarked maintenance opened and worked on the right hand engine (V2527) for a couple of hours, then the passengers were informed that a replacement aircraft would be sent in from Santiago.
A replacement A319-100 registration CC-AFZ positioned from Santiago as flight H2-9000 and as H2-8 delivered the passengers to Santiago with a delay of 9.5 hours.
The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground for 69 hours, then positioned to Santiago as flight H2-9000 and resumed service.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Dec 9, 2016
Classification
Incident
Airline
Sky Airline
Flight number
H2-8
Departure
Punta Arenas, Chile
Destination
Santiago, Chile
Aircraft Registration
CC-ABW
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
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