Croatia Airlines’ Airbus A220-300 aircraft, registered 9A-CAN, has performed its first flight in over five months following a serious incident at Split Airport in May. The aircraft was ferried from Split to Zagreb on Tuesday, October 20, having remained grounded since May 16. During the ferry flight, the aircraft maintained an altitude of just 14.000 feet and flew with its landing gear extended throughout the journey. It remains unclear when the aircraft will return to scheduled commercial operations.
The aircraft was involved in a runway excursion at Split Airport on May 16 while preparing to operate scheduled flight OU412 to Frankfurt. During its take-off roll, the jet veered to the left, prompting the crew to reject the take-off. The aircraft subsequently left the paved runway surface, coming to a stop with its nose landing gear and left main landing gear on the adjacent grass. There were 130 passengers and five crew members on board at the time, none of whom sustained injuries. The aircraft suffered damage to its landing gear and left engine.
Croatia's Air, Maritime and Railway Traffic Accidents Investigation Agency (AIN) classified the occurrence as a serious incident and launched an investigation, which remains ongoing. Preliminary findings have ruled out adverse weather and runway conditions as contributing factors, although the precise cause of the aircraft's deviation during take-off has yet to be established.
The funniest thing is, they don't need the plane at all. It has made no impact on their timetable being a plane down which is sad.
ReplyDeleteIf it flew at just 14,000 ft and with retracted landing gear it means something still isn't ok with the plane.
ReplyDeleteRead again please. It flew with landing great EXTENDED, which is done when some times when you ferry the flights to base for maintenance. In this case, the aircraft sustained some damage do its landing gear, so it's better to leave it down until it gets a full check in Zagreb.
DeleteCan Zagreb even check it?
DeleteThey do all sorts of heavy maintenance for airlines including Lufthansa
DeleteThe strangest thing for me is: how the hell did CA managed to have such a high load factor on that flight on May 16
ReplyDeleteBecause Croatia Airlines has a good LF on leisure routes from Split and Dubrovnik. Their problems are non-leisure routes from Zagreb and routes such as Vienna, Sarajevo, Skoplje and Mostar which have 30% LF.
DeleteDidn't know that. So routes like SPU-MUC, CPH and SPU-LHR perform good?
DeleteDuring summer almost all routes from Split perform good, some perform better some worse. But in the end almost all of them are quite okay given that Croatia Airlines functions like airline stuck in 1985. Issue are routes from Zagreb since they do not have any hub in it, and P2P passengers don't want to pay hundreds of euros to them.
DeleteI am happy to pay hundreds of euros to OU. The best Airline around!
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