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dcajet wrote:A major hydraulic fluid leak from an Avianca A332 N342AV, that was landing from BOG at 5:17 forced the closure of the airport, as the leak occurred at the intersection of EZE's 2 main runways 11-29 and 17-35. The airport was closed for 4 hours until the cleaning crews could take care of the mess. Runway 11-29 was reopened at 5 AM and 17-35 at 10 AM. AV's return flight to BOG was cancelled.
The morning is the peak arrivals period at EZE for flights from Europe and North America, and MVD and other regional airports saw a windfall of diversions. The scene early this AM at MVD from a departing AR 73G to AEP includes Norwegian UK, KLM, Alitalia, Air Europa, LATAM Peru, COPA and GOL among others.
upperdeckfan wrote:
BTW dcajet, as I told you recently on another thread, strange events seem to happen more often at EZE than anywhere else.
I think we can chalk this up to EZE's 2 runways' layout, that intersect each other and the proverbial location, location, location for Avianca to go tech.upperdeckfan wrote:
I left EZE last Friday 3 hours late as KL's 77W went tech just before takeoff.... engine related... are you aware of what really happened?
Trying to post a picture I took when they were working on the engine but couldn't sort out how to do it
dcajet wrote:Leak sprung from the main landing gear doors' actuator.
upperdeckfan wrote:dcajet wrote:Leak sprung from the main landing gear doors' actuator.
Didn't look like a landing gear issue, left engine was opened and a couple of mechanics were working on it most of the time.
upperdeckfan wrote:Spotters at ASU must have had a great time with a B748 on the ground
DABYT wrote:upperdeckfan wrote:Spotters at ASU must have had a great time with a B748 on the ground
ASU has seen LHs 748 several times in the last years due to diversions. Mainly because of bad weather in EZE.
