Final Report A320 (A6-EIF) en route west southwest of Karachi Pakistan, 5 Mar 2018

Final Report A320 (A6-EIF) en route west southwest of Karachi Pakistan, 5 Mar 2018

Publication info
Author
AAIS (UAE)
Category
Airworthiness Loss of Control
Date of publication
22/04/2019

On 5 March 2018, the crew of an Airbus A320 in descent towards Karachi observed a slow but continuous rise in cabin pressure which eventually triggered an excessive cabin altitude warning which led them to don oxygen masks, commence an emergency descent and declare a PAN to ATC until the situation had been normalised. The Investigation found that the cause was the processing of internally corrupted data in the active cabin pressure controller which had used a landing field elevation of over 10,000 feet. It noted that Airbus is developing a modified controller that will prevent erroneous data calculations occurring.

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