Earlier this week, an American Airlines flight suffered two incidents in New York. One at it’s departure point of LaGuardia and one at JFK.
Information has been revealed pertaining to the two issues that took place on the flight, which we will detail in this article.
Without further ado, let’s get into it….
American Airlines Flight AA1023 – New York to Charlotte…
American Airlines flight AA1023, which suffered the two incidents, is a routine scheduled flight between New York LaGuardia & Charlotte.
Furthermore, it is understood the aircraft involved in the incidents was N521UW.
As per data from Planespotters.net, N521UW is a 15.2 year old Airbus A321ceo that started out life with US Airways back in June 2009.
Following the merger with American Airlines, the aircraft was transferred from the US registry to the AA registry in December 2013.
Of the A321ceo variant, the airline has 218 of them in their fleet.
Moreover, within that 218, all but three are in active service, with an average fleet age of 12.0 years.
As well as the A321ceo, American Airlines has the following other aircraft in their mainline fleet:
- 133 Airbus A319s.
- 48 Airbus A320s.
- 80 Airbus A321neos.
- 365 Boeing 737s.
- 67 Boeing 777s.
- 59 Boeing 787s.
Incident #1…
As per The Aviation Herald, the first incident involved the aircraft operating American Airlines flight AA1023 New York-Charlotte having to return to the gate originally after pushback.
This was due to a passenger needing to be removed from the aircraft amid them having a fake passport and managed to get through security.
Furthermore, the passenger was removed, the aircraft pushed back and proceeded to taxi out at LaGuardia.
After a delay of an hour and a half, American Airlines flight AA1023 departed New York LaGuardia bound for Charlotte.
Incident #2…
The second incident came not long after departure from LaGuardia itself.
When the crew was attempting to bring the landing gear up after departure, the gear got stuck, and was discovered at 10,000 feet.
From there, a series of holds were implemented by the crew and decided on a diversion to JFK.
Overall, after over an hour in the air, American Airlines flight AA1023 from LaGuardia, originally bound for Charlotte, landed safely into New York JFK without further incident.
Aircraft Grounded For A Few Hours After The Second Incident…
Upon landing into New York JFK, American Airlines flight AA1023 remained on the ground for a few hours.
This was so then maintenance crews could take a look at the aircraft and apply relevant fixes.
The aircraft was fixed, and the passengers were able to continue on to Charlotte.
It is understood the aircraft landed into it’s destination, with a hefty delay of nearly seven hours.
After that flight was completed, N521UW continued operating commercial sectors, with no additional problems reported.
As soon as we have more information pertinent to the incidents at hand, then we will update you accordingly.
Such updates will be seen at the bottom of this article as and when new information comes in.
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