PeterRS Posted Thursday at 03:05 AM Posted Thursday at 03:05 AM An American Airlines Dreamliner similar to the one which crashed in India was forced to make no less than four emergency landings in the space of just one month, as reported in The Telegraph in London. Some of the technical reasons related to wing flaps. On January 7, the Dreamliner flight AA203 from Amsterdam to Philadelphia had a problem with wing flaps, dumped fuel over the Atlantic and made an emergency landing back at Schipol at higher than normal speed. The flight was eventually rescheduled for the next day. However, that too had to be cancelled when engineers discovered a hydraulics issue. Three days later the aircraft was still on the ground in Amsterdam. Also in that same month, the same AA aircraft which was 8 years old was forced to abort three more flights mid-air to Philadephia - from Dublin, then Barcelona and finally Zurich. Then on February 18, another AA 4.3 year old Dreamliner from Paris CDC to Miami was forced to make an emergency landing at London Heathrow airport. 30 minutes into the flight, the cockpit crew had declared an emergency. AA claimed this was for a medical emerency, but seven hours after landing the aircraft was still on the ground in London. A week ago, another American Airlines 787-9 aircraft AA780 left Philadephia for Naples, Italy. As it was between Rome and Naples, it abruptly turned back and landed at Rome's Fiumicino airport. Passengers then had to be bused for three hours to get to their destination. This was no fault in the aircraft, though. Here it lay squarely with AA. That flight is normally operated by the shorter 787-8 aircraft. The rerouting was claimed by AA to be for "operational reasons". It should have added "sorry, everyone - our fault". The 787-9 is too long and with a wider wingspan to land at Naples due to issues with rescue and firefighting!! https://www.yahoo.com/news/whistleblower-raised-safety-fears-over-113356557.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall https://aviationa2z.com/index.php/2025/02/18/american-airlines-flight-makes-emergency-landing-at-heathrow/ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/american-airlines-flight-diverted-because-it-was-too-big-for-its-destination/ar-AA1GjbMb Quote
