Hope it wasn’t one of the reasons why the plane malfunctioned on January 15th!
According to a new report, the US Airways airbus that had to make a miraculous landing on the Hudson River experienced an engine compressor failure two days earlier, said the National Transportation Safety Board.
On Monday, the board’s examination of the Airbus 320’s maintenance records show “there was an entry in the aircraft’s maintenance log that indicates a compressor stall occurred on Jan. 13.”
The compressor, or fan, draws air into the engine.
The airbus had a different pilot that day, and the NTSB will interview that pilot to learn more about the incident.
So far, NTSB investigators have not uncovered “any anomalies or malfunctions with Flight 1549 from the time it left the gate at LaGuardia Airport on Jan. 15.”
A full investigation of the incident will take at least a year to complete.
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