- Date
- April 20, 1998
- Place
- Atlantic Ocean (Atlantic Ocean)
- Injuries
- 177 uninjured
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N33069Airbus Industrie A300-600
- Weather
- Not reported
- Status
- Completed · report November 30, 2007
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Case key
- 43113
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Probable cause
Malfunction of the primary navigation system for undetermined reasons.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
On April 20, 1998 an incident occurred with an A300-600 in between their departure point, New York, and their destination, London Heathrow. The navigational system malfunctioned. The crew activated the secondary flight plan and the navigational system was operative. After landing, the #2 Flight Management Computer (FMC) was replaced and the navigational system checked functional. No additional information is available.
Factual narrative
On April 20, 1998 an incident occurred with an A300-600 in between their departure point, New York, and their destination, London Heathrow. The navigational system malfunctioned. The crew activated the secondary flight plan and the navigational system was operative.
After landing, the #2 Flight Management Computer (FMC) was replaced and the navigational system checked functional.
No additional information is available.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N33069
- Reported as
- Airbus Industrie A300-600
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- unknown
- Fire
- Unknown
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- American Airlines
- Departed
- New York, NY
- Destination
- London Heathrow, OF
- Flight plan
- Unknown
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Not reported