STUTTGART- A British Airways (BA) Airbus A319-100, registered as G-EUPR, scheduled to perform flight BA921 from Stuttgart (STR), Germany, to London Heathrow (LHR) with 93 passengers and 6 crew members, experienced an incident during boarding.
Ground staff operating a cargo door triggered a smoke alert due to a hydraulic line leak. The aircraft was evacuated, and five ground workers were injured by the leaking hydraulic oil, with four of them taken to a hospital.
British Airways Hydraulic Leaks
Stuttgart’s Police reported that the 93 passengers and 6 crew members onboard needed to be evacuated after the smoke alert was activated. The alert was caused by a technical defect in the hydraulic system of a cargo door.
Five ground workers were injured by contact with the hydraulic oil, with four requiring hospital transport, reported Aviation Herald.
Emergency services, including 33 vehicles from Fire Brigades and Ambulances and 2 police patrol cars, were dispatched to the scene.
The flight was canceled, and passengers were rebooked for the next day. The aircraft remained grounded in Stuttgart.
Similar Incident
Last year, an American Airlines (AA) flight from Los Angeles (LAX) to Boston (BOS) using Airbus A321 declared an Emergency.
American Flight AA1692 declared an emergency shortly after taking off from LAX. The plane safely landed at Los Angeles (LAX) at 3:19 PM UTC
The flight made an Emergency landing due to a complete hydraulic system failure.
The aircraft involved in the incident is American Airlines Airbus A321-231, registered N106NN. Subsequently, it is a nine-year-old and four-month-old aircraft, taken on lease in Jan 2014.
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