Baltic BCS3 near Budapest on Jul 27th 2019, jammed aileron

Last Update: July 30, 2019 / 17:50:53 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jul 27, 2019

Classification
Incident

Airline
Air Baltic

Flight number
BT-7792

Departure
Chania, Greece

Destination
Helsinki, Finland

Aircraft Registration
YL-CSH

Aircraft Type
Airbus A220-300

ICAO Type Designator
BCS3

An Air Baltic Bombardier C-Series CS-300, registration YL-CSH performing flight BT-7792 from Chania (Greece) to Helsinki (Finland) with 149 passengers and 5 crew, was enroute at FL380 having just entered Hungarian Airspace when the crew requested to divert to Budapest due to a technical problem. On approach to Budapest the crew subsequently advised approach control that they did expect a normal landing, however, requested emergency services on stand by nonetheless. One of their ailerons had failed and was jammed in an unusual position, they'd be able to control the aircraft with the remaining flight controls however. The aircraft landed on Budapest's runway 31R about 35 minutes after leaving FL380.

Hungary's KBSZ reported the aircraft (tail number provided with a typo as LY-CSH) diverted to Budapest due to techncial malfunction and was able to continue the journey the following day.

The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground for about 37 hours, then on Jul 29th departed Budapest as flight BT-9804 to Riga (Latvia).
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Jul 27, 2019

Classification
Incident

Airline
Air Baltic

Flight number
BT-7792

Departure
Chania, Greece

Destination
Helsinki, Finland

Aircraft Registration
YL-CSH

Aircraft Type
Airbus A220-300

ICAO Type Designator
BCS3

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