American Hawaii Plane,American Airlines afield operated a Hawaii flight with an aircraft that was not certified for continued over-water flights, the aggregation has acknowledged.
The flight occurred Aug. 31 on a avenue from Los Angeles to Honolulu. The airline is now alteration its centralized procedures afterwards the incident, according to aerodynamics blogger Brian Sumers, who aboriginal appear the story.
American's aberration centered not on whether the Airbus A321 had the ambit to fly from California to Hawaii – it is able to do so – but rather on whether it was appropriately certified.
Planes that fly continued over-water routes accept to accept appropriate acceptance for such flights. That acceptance is accepted as "ETOPS," which stands for "Extended-range Twin-engine Operational Performance Standards."
The Washington Post addendum the acceptance "is primarily an authoritative requirement, but it aswell calls for the planes to be able with added oxygen and a blaze abolishment canister."
American says it notified the Federal Aerodynamics Administration as anon as it accomplished the aberration had been made.
When we accomplished what happened, we anon notified the FAA and began a absolute analysis of our procedures," American agent Casey Norton says to Today in the Sky. "Already, we accept revised our software to appropriately analyze the actual aircraft are operating the actual routes."
American agent Casey Norton explains to AFP that – except for the ETOPS acceptance – the A321S that afield flew the Hawaii cruise is the aforementioned as the A321H that was declared to fly the route.
"American's A321S flies over baptize consistently for abounding missions, but is not ETOPS-certified, which is appropriate by the FAA for American's Hawaiian flights," American adds to ABC. "The A321S is able with four slide-rafts (one at anniversary bend of the aircraft) and one carriageable bulk in accession to activity vests and bench cushions that can serve as abutment devices."
"It has the aforementioned engine, aforementioned ammunition tanks, aforementioned range," Norton says to AFP.
The flight occurred Aug. 31 on a avenue from Los Angeles to Honolulu. The airline is now alteration its centralized procedures afterwards the incident, according to aerodynamics blogger Brian Sumers, who aboriginal appear the story.
American's aberration centered not on whether the Airbus A321 had the ambit to fly from California to Hawaii – it is able to do so – but rather on whether it was appropriately certified.
Planes that fly continued over-water routes accept to accept appropriate acceptance for such flights. That acceptance is accepted as "ETOPS," which stands for "Extended-range Twin-engine Operational Performance Standards."
The Washington Post addendum the acceptance "is primarily an authoritative requirement, but it aswell calls for the planes to be able with added oxygen and a blaze abolishment canister."
American says it notified the Federal Aerodynamics Administration as anon as it accomplished the aberration had been made.
When we accomplished what happened, we anon notified the FAA and began a absolute analysis of our procedures," American agent Casey Norton says to Today in the Sky. "Already, we accept revised our software to appropriately analyze the actual aircraft are operating the actual routes."
American agent Casey Norton explains to AFP that – except for the ETOPS acceptance – the A321S that afield flew the Hawaii cruise is the aforementioned as the A321H that was declared to fly the route.
"American's A321S flies over baptize consistently for abounding missions, but is not ETOPS-certified, which is appropriate by the FAA for American's Hawaiian flights," American adds to ABC. "The A321S is able with four slide-rafts (one at anniversary bend of the aircraft) and one carriageable bulk in accession to activity vests and bench cushions that can serve as abutment devices."
"It has the aforementioned engine, aforementioned ammunition tanks, aforementioned range," Norton says to AFP.
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