Puravidatransport wrote:
Since this has nothing to do with Costa Rica (outside Avianca flies to San Jose), figured I'd post this here where I figure aviation enthusiasts can see it.
On September 14th, an Avianca flight from Buenos Aires to Bogota in an Airbus A330 developed a HUGE fuel leak in-flight. Pilots made the decision to land at Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Landed fine but lost 17 tons out of 42 tons of fuel they left with. There is an amazing video of the landing on YouTube where you can see just how bad the fuel leak was. Amazing it never ignited....
YouTube video :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MSgYB_zTcMAVHerald description of the incident:
http://avherald.com/h?article=468796d9&opt=0That's crazy. One more reason to avoid Avi-nunca. Those guys or gals in the control tower were frieken out proly scared it gonna stop and explode right next to them. As soon as they landed and stabilized think the captain avoided brake use and just used the rear thrusters?
On a visit to Argentina in 2006 I took an Aerolineas flight from BsAs to Cordoba in this older 737 (think late 60s early 70s) that still had the old style narrow engines. I was sitting next to the window and keep seeing this red line down the wing, was a hydraulic fluid leak that I'm sure they knew about but figured it wasn't a fast leak so kept on flying. The leak on the A330 is huge.
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