Final Report F70 (P2-ANT), vicinity Port Moreseby Papua New Guinea, 20 February 2023

Final Report F70 (P2-ANT), vicinity Port Moreseby Papua New Guinea, 20 February 2023

Publication info
Author
AIC (Papua New Guinea)
Category
Accident Reports Loss of Control Human Factors
Date of publication
11/09/2024

On 20 February 2023, a Fokker 70 flight crew only realised the landing altitude for their destination, Port Moresby, had not been set late in the descent. With insufficient time to eliminate the cabin pressure differential automatically, an attempt to use the abnormal manual control procedure was made. When it became clear that this had not worked, a go-around was initiated but when the cabin pressure differential then rose rapidly to 6 psi, multiple passenger ear/nose/throat injuries resulted, some serious. Another abnormal procedure was then actioned and this fortuitously resolved the situation and the aircraft was able to land.

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