What was found
AIRCRAFT WAS GROUNDED. AIRCRAFT ENCOUNTERD A BIRD STRIKE TO THE RADOME ON CLIMB OUT. AN EMERGENCY WAS DECLARED AND THE AIRCRAFT RETURNED TO PHX, WHERE IT LANDED SAFELY WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT. REPLACED RADOME, PER AMM 53-15-11.
- Difficulty date
- October 16, 2020
- Submitted
- October 19, 2020
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N604AW
- Make and model
- Airbus A320232
- Aircraft serial
- 1196
- Aircraft time
- 68,868 hours, 26,850 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5350 · Aerodynamic Fairings
- Part
- Radome
- Part number
- 10032013AA
- Part serial
- RADSA4978C
- Condition
- Damaged
- Location
- Nose
- Part time
- 11,304 hours, 5,617 cycles
- Stage of operation
- CL
- How discovered
- O
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- A
As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.