LONDON – F-HRBA, the Air France Boeing 787 involved in two emergencies in a 24-hour period, makes its first flight in a week.
At the time of writing, F-HRBA is currently over the Atlantic Ocean, operating AF422 between Paris Charles de Gaulle and Bogota in Colombia.
The aircraft has been in the air for around three and a half hours, meaning whatever problems were discovered on the Air France Boeing 787 Dreamliner have now been fixed.
In case you missed it, here is the recap of the two emergencies the aircraft was involved in last week:
Emergency #1: Air France 864 – Paris to Cape Town…
The first emergency from F-HRBA happened yesterday whilst it was operating Air France 864 to Cape Town, South Africa.
Around 20-25 minutes into the flight, the aircraft squawked 7700 and proceeded to turn back towards Paris CDG.
It landed back at the Parisian airport not long after the emergency was declared.
The reason for this particular emergency was a technical issue with the aircraft, which resulted in the decision being made not to continue onwards to Cape Town.
Emergency #2 – Air France 268 – Paris to Male…
The second emergency from F-HRBA happened around an hour ago, with the aircraft operating Air France 864 from Paris CDG to Male.
Once again, around 20-25 minutes into the flight, the aircraft turned around and started holding south of Luxembourg to burn off fuel.
AF864 then headed West to join the approach sequence for Runway 08R at Paris CDG before landing safely around 15-20 minutes after its hold near Luxembourg.
At this time, we do not know whether this emergency tonight was the same technical issue that the aircraft experienced yesterday.
AviationSource will reach out to Air France for comment on these two emergencies to see what the official reason was.
This is a developing story.
Technical Issue On The Air France 787 Was Its Engines…
It is understood that the technical issue at hand was to do with one of the Air France Boeing 787’s engines.
AviationSource reader Gary Johnston was on the flight to Cape Town and sent in the photos above that you can see in the slideshow.
It can be expected that the flight to Male more than likely suffered the same issue, although we are still awaiting confirmation from Air France on this.
This is a developing story.
