Tiger A320 "Serious Incident" Diversion to CBR (5/8/09)

VH-VND diverted to Canberra this morning, ATSB quotes it as a "Serious Incident" Operationally. An Adelaide based A320 has been sent to Melbourne to fill the gaps till tomorrow morning.

The crew of a Tiger Airways Australia Airbus A320-200, registration VH-VND from Melbourne,VI to Mackay,QL (Australia), decided to divert to Canberra,AC (Australia) after multiple warning messages occured during cruise flight. The airplane landed safely.

The ATSB rated the occurence a serious incident and have opened an investigation.
http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/...-2009-049.aspx

[David McNeil]

Do we know if the aircraft continued onto MKY? You wouldnt think there would be much engineering assistance available there! Then again CBR wouldnt be to helpful for TT either......

[David McNeil]

05/8 TT583 MACKAY 15:10 21:16


Ive answered my own question! It must have carried onto MKY after sometime and is arriving back in MEL tonight at 21:16 instead of the STA of 15:10. Yikes 6hrs late.......

[Steve Jones]

No, Tiger actually sent a replacement aircraft to CBR to pick up the passengers and take them onto Mackay (I didn't know they had spare aircraft capacity!). The ATSB stayed with the u/s plane for some time before it was cleared to depart (presumably empty back to MEL).

Was quite an unusual sight seeing 3 Tiger A320s together at CBR with the regular ADL flight arriving shortly before the replacement aircraft departed to MKY (with the u/s A320 also on the bay).

[Dave Parer]

Article is today's Mackay Mercury paper;

http://www.dailymercury.com.au/story...akes-12-hours/