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Jordan Aviation
Safety Department
ISSUE 25_ 21.08.2021
Inside this issue
Issue 25_21.08.2021 _page 1-5
1. Kabul International Airport Reo-
pens On A Limited Basis
2. Turkish Airlines Airbus A330 Rejects
Takeoff On Taxiway
3. Forgotten screwdriver tip leads to
Jetstar Airways A320 incident on
takeoff
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Kabul International Airport Reopens On A Limited Basis
Issue 25 _21.08.2021 _page 2-5
According to ch-aviation.com, both sides of the airport are now available after troops resecured the civilian side of the airport. Operators intending to land in the city must request permis-sion before landing, which is valid for 30 minutes from the issue.
IFR flights to Kabul are currently not possible as air traffic controllers aren’t available to direct flights. Instead, each flight must operate as a VFR flight at its own risk. Additionally, not aviation fuel is available at the airport, meaning that planes must land with enough fuel to depart again, a process known in the industry as tankering.
https://simpleflying.com/kabul-international-airport-reopens/
Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport has reopened on a
limited basis, according to reports. The civilian side of the
airport had been closed until further notice after it was
breached by desperate Afghanis seeking to escape the country
as the Taliban claimed control of the country’s capital this
weekend.
Shocking scenes have been coming out of Kabul International
Airport since late in the weekend. While a lone Turkish
Airlines flight made it in and out of Kabul Airport on Monday,
no commercial flights seem to have used the airport yesterday
until a Russian Airliner landed at the airport .
Kabul reopen?
It seems that both the Civilian and Military sides of Kabul Air-
port are now open to a limited extent, according to reporting
from ch-aviation.com, tied with flight data from
FlightRadar24.com. The military side had already been
available with several countries operating repatriation
flights for citizens.
According to ch-aviation.com, both sides of the airport are now
available after troops resecured the civilian side of the airport.
Operators intending to land in the city must request
permission before landing, which is valid for 30 minutes from
the issue.
An active period
Altogether, the A330 departing New-ark last week landed safely in Istanbul after a 100-minute delay. There are no reports of any injuries during the inci-dent.
Turkish Airlines had had a busy sum-mer in comparison to the downturn following the complications of the global health crisis. Last month, the carrier performed over 1,000 flights in a day for the first time since the pan-demic. It operated 1,253 flights a day between July 8th to 14th to reach 85% of its 2019 activity. The firm will undoubtedly be hoping to prevent any further incidents like what hap-pened last week from occurring again.
Simple Flying reached out to Turkish Airlines for comment on this inci-dent. We will update the article with any further announcements from the airline.
Transatlantic mission
The A330 was given clearance for takeoff from the airport’s
runway 22R at intersection with taxiway W. However, accord-
ing to The Aviation Herald, the wide body crossed runway 22R
and lined up with taxiway P to begin its takeoff. Subsequently,
staff in the control tower canceled the clearance and informed
the pilots that the plane was on taxiway P.
The flight crew then rejected takeoff at approximately 90 knots
(166 km/h) over ground before slowing down and turning right
onto taxiway E. The A330 then crossed 22R again before joining
taxiway B. Here, the crew was told to taxi to the holding point
on runway 11 by taxiway W.
The brakes had to cool down here for 45 minutes. After the
plane was ready to go again, it taxied along runway 11 before
lining up at 22R for it to finally depart an hour after the
rejection.
The aircraft
According to ch-aviation, Turkish Airlines holds 64 Airbus A330
family aircraft. These are split between 14 -200s, 10 -200Fs, and
40 -300s.
TC-JNI, the unit involved in last weekend’s incident, arrived at
the operator’s facilities on October 13th, 2010. The airline was
the first to take on the 10-year old deploying it to the likes of
Dubai, Stockholm. Kabul, Düsseldorf, Baku, and Boston, to
name a few destinations.
https://simpleflying.com/turkish-a330-taxiway-takeoff/
Turkish Airlines Airbus A330 Rejects Takeoff On Taxiway
Issue 25_21-08.2021 _page 4-5
Forgotten screwdriver tip leads to Jetstar Airways A320 incident on takeoff
Issue 25_21.08.2021 _page 3-5
However, as soon as both engines spooled up to the needed power, pi-lots noticed an unusual vibration which was followed by a “popping noise” in which volume was continu-ously increasing. In the meantime, the plane instantly deviated to the right of the runway centreline. To stop the diverged aircraft, the first officer pressed the left-hand rudder pedal in full but the move did not help, so the captain selected reverse thrust and the jet decreased the speed to 30 knots. When the thrust levels returned to idle, the suspicious vibration and sound stopped.
Meanwhile, the Electronic Centralised Aircraft Monitoring (ECAM) system, which monitors and displays information over the engine and air-craft system malfunctions, displayed two error messages of engine No.2, alerting the flight crew about “STALL” and “EGT [Exhaust Gas Temperature, ed.] LIMIT EXCEEDANCE”.
https://www.aerotime.aero/28604-atsb-incident-report-jetstar-airways-airbus-a320
Jetstar Airways A320 takeoff incident in 2020 was caused by a
forgotten screwdriver tip, left in the Airbus jet engine, Australi-
an investigators reveal in a report.
Jetstar Airways Airbus A320 jet flight crew had to abort the
takeoff due to engine power loss and low speed back in
October 2020. In a final report released on August 16, 2021, the
Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) confirmed the
initial conclusions of a crucial human factor error.
Suspicious engine vibrations and a “popping noise” on
takeoff
On October 23, 2020, Jetstar Airways Airbus A320-232 aircraft,
registered as VH-VFF, was supposed to operate a regular flight
between Brisbane (BNE) and Cairns (CNS), Queensland
Australia. There were 165 passengers and six crew members on
board.
Shortly after the push-back, the first officer taxied the aircraft
for takeoff on the dedicated runway 01L. Once the flight crew
received approval for a takeoff, they lined up the plane and set
a particular engine thrust level, which was counted based on
the VH-VFF weight, flap settings, and the runway length
available at the time.
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Forgotten screwdriver tip leads to Jetstar Airways A320 incident on
A human factor leads to significant mechanical damage
As soon as all 165 passengers disembarked the plane, engineers inspected the plane and found small
balls of metallic debris in the tailpipe of the right-hand engine. According to the report, as the damage
was outside maintenance manual limits, the right-hand jet engine was removed and sent for a teardown
inspection, where engineers found a screwdriver tip in the high-pressure compressor (HPC) combustion
section, which had caused the HPC damage. In addition to the HPC damage, some of the rotor blades
and stators had also been minorly affected.
Small metallic debris and a screwdriver tip were found between the combustion liner and engine case.
The screwdriver tip was burnt and the tip eroded “due to heat and mechanical damage”, as written in
the report. Many engine components throughout the HPC matched the shape of the screwdriver
meaning that the item must have been in the engine for more than 100 flights.
The ATSB found that the tool bit had been left in the engine during regular maintenance, when the
engine was removed to lubricate the LPC Bleed Valve Mechanism.
“The ATSB concluded the tool bit had been left in the engine after maintenance and when the engine
was running, it entered the high-pressure compressor, leaving dents and nicks in numerous rotor blades
and stator vanes,” the ATSB Director Transport Safety Stuart Macleod was quoted in the report
explaining.
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