Incident: BMI A332 at Istanbul on Nov 16th 2010, hydraulic leak

By Simon Hradecky, created Thursday, Nov 18th 2010 19:00Z, last updated Thursday, Nov 18th 2010 19:23Z

A BMI Airbus A330-200 on behalf of Turkish Airlines, registration G-WWBM performing flight TK-628 from Dakar (Senegal) to Istanbul Ataturk (Turkey), experienced the failure of the green hydraulic system while on final approach to Istanbul’s runway 35R. The crew continued for a safe landing, the airplane needed to be towed off the runway due to lost nosewheel steering.

Maintenance identified a hydraulic leak as cause of the failure.

The airplane departed again for its next scheduled flight with a delay of 4 hours after 6 hours on the ground, but needed to return due to another failure of the green hydraulic system, see Incident: BMI A332 at Istanbul on Nov 17th 2010, hydraulic failure.