Airbus A310

Summary

On 28 January 2007 at about 23:03 local time, a Airbus A310, operated by SATA International, was involved in an incident near Santa Maria, Portugal. 190 people were on board and nobody was injured. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

28 January 2007 at 23:03

Classification

Incident

Location

Santa Maria, Portugal

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Airbus A310

Registration

Not recorded

Category

Airplane

Operator

SATA International

Operating rule

Non-U.S., Commercial

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Aircraft damage

Not recorded

NTSB number

DCA08WA049

Nobody was injured.

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

On January 28, 2007 at 2303 UTC, SATA International flight RZO-128, Portuguese registration CS-TSM, Airbus A310, experienced an uncommanded extension of a flight spoiler during cruise flight. The 9 crewmembers and 181 passengers were not injured. The aircraft was not damaged. The flight departed Ponta Delgada, Azores (LPPD) and the destination was Lisbon, Portugal (LPPT). The aircraft was en route at FL 380 and after passing waypoint "BELKIN", the number 6R spoiler extended and remained so even after the Abnormal Checklist Actions had been performed. The Automatic Pilot (AP) disengaged and the aircraft became difficult to control. The crew flew the airplane manually until reaching a lower altitude, when the AP was reengaged with the CWS. The flight was diverted to Santa Maria and landed without incident. The incident was investigated by the Portuguese Cabinet of Prevention and Investigation of Aircraft (GPIAA).

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.