An American Eagle aircraft experienced what is described as ‘limited aileron control’ upon approach to Dominica on September 17, The Aviation Herald reported on its website yesterday.
Ailerons are flap-like devices located on the trailing edge of the wings of an aircraft. Of the three directions of motion, the ailerons control the roll or bank of an airplane. Ailerons flap up and down to either make the plane roll to the left or to the right and also causes it to roll because of the way they deflect air.
According to The Aviation Herald the American Eagle Avion de Transport Regional ATR-72-200, registration N399AT performing flight MQ-4834 was on its way from San Juan to Melville Hall.
The aircraft was on a waiting holding pattern due to weather, when according to the website,”the crew received an “A/P AILERON MISTRIM” message. The crew disconnected the autopilot and noticed that although they had full aileron control to the right there was limited control to the left only.”
Despite this the site went on to say the crew continued to a safe landing at the airport.
A report by the US-based National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) revealed that a landing control cable, connecting the aileron to the autopilot actuator, was found broken after the aircraft landed.
this is the article in the aviation herald
An American Eagle Avion de Transport Regional ATR-72-200, registration N399AT performing flight MQ-4834 from San Juan (Puerto Rico) to Dominica Melville Hall (Dominica), was on approach to Dominica in a waiting holding pattern due to weather, when the crew received an “A/P AILERON MISTRIM” message. The crew disconnected the autopilot and noticed that although they had full aileron control to the right there was limited control to the left only. The crew continued for a safe landing at Meville Hall airport.
The NTSB reported that after landing a control cable, connecting the aileron to the autopilot actuator, was found broken.
OH BOY!!
Again… SOME Dominicans suffer from Poverty of Reasoning!
What does that have to do with poverty? I don get some coments at all.
“poverty of reasoning” meaning that they lack reasoning or have very little. My God.. my 87 year old grandmother can comprehend everything on here yet younger ones can. What has dominica become…
Look people read it here…
http://avherald.com/h?article=4446d03f&opt=0
The ignorance and sheer stupidity of some Dominicans baffles me.
It clearly states that this happened on September 17th, and yes, the plane did land at Melville Hall. I am 99% sure that if the result was tragedy and DNO did not make us aware of it, that you would be very unhappy.
It pertains to Dominica so it is relevant to being a headline.
have the aviation herald ever posted good news about any country? The site is devoted to incidents and accidents related to aviation.
Dominica was posted about on airliners.net and the thread only received 8 replies. None of them pertained to Dominica. No one knows us, just deal with it.
PRETTY SURE IT WAS REPORTED TO YOUR MINISTER OF TRANSPORTATION , IT SHOULD BE HIS DUTY TO MAKE IT PUBLIC IF HE THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT, IT WASN,T SO DON,T BLAME THE AH.
praise the lord it landed safe. the whole thing was to inform the people of what caused the delay in landing not anything to do with dominica but i guess the passengers had a right to know im glad all is well.
I am living in the Diaspora. Reading some of these bloggers views, it really makes me to believe they are a lost & can’t comprehend what they are reading… was Dominica, the destination for the aircraft? Yes were there Dominicans resident on the plain? Yes, yes. So they has to make a report on the error, if the airplane was to proceed to land, might has result in a different story. Dominica airport are in a steep landing zone, surround with mountains, so it would have cause the plain, to experience heavy turbulence landing, and possible catastrophe…
This incident is not related to the airport. Read it again.
Bull crap,seems like you dont understand english (the crew continued to a safe landing to the airport)dont you know whith island they said they were approaching.
people i was waiting for the same plane it did not land in dominica because of the weather they told us to wait the plane is waiting for the weather to clear up and later said the plane is not going to land so we went home after six pm but in the morning they call me @ my home and said if i can take the flight that just landed it was a different flight ,am thankful to god they made us aware of what has happen thank god the weather was really bad that day.
the people who said they were on that flight and that they landed in Guadeloupe asking where this is the wrong date or not. if u read properly it said the flight was in route to Dominica. never said it landed in Dominica.
So if you were on the flight on that day. the real question u need to ask is why were u not told that. not whether almost a month later if the date was wrong or not.
at the airport…. read fools read
did you not see where the article was taken from?
Do yourself a favor and use google search before you make a complete fool of yourself the next time.
Dominica airpot is operating with 70s equipment and we expect international flights to land. If the pilots detected the problem on approach to the rivers, valleys, hills and mountain all these gifts we do Extol. the rest would be history…
i don’t know it what hole you’ve been hiding but for you info melvillehall has some of the latest in aviation eqp.
This incident had nothing to do with the airport. Read it again.
stupes that DNO is just trying to keep you informed about what is going on. if this was about liat you stupes would be quick to bad mouth liat. hmmmmm go figure the eagle can have mechanical problems too
when people have nothing to say or do their brain start frying.most people that commenting have no under standing or they cannot read good
So what does that hav to do with the price of rice….THANK PAPA GOD THE PLANE LANDED SAFE. actually I do not consider that a story all you just scaring people.
What was the purpose of this article? I was baffled by the heading. What does the malfunctioning of an aircraft have to do with the route of travel? Through-out the article, the author left the reader wandering what the airport had to do with the malfunction, till at the end in the last paragraph he buries the cause of the malfunction which had nothing to do with our airport.
One is therefore left to wonder the purpose of the article, It would seem that the Minister of ports should register a complain against the author of the report, which to me does nothing else but makes an unsuccessful attempt to strike fear in the minds of those wishing to visit our country.
Mr Blackmore, this is the time to make some noise because if one simply looks at the caption without reading the article, the purpose will seem clear! Discredit Dominica, by any means possible!!!
Had you known what the “aileron” was, then you would not be “wondering” (and not “wandering”)what the airport had to do with the malfunction, from the moment you read the headline. #educateyourself
You may be too educated for your own good! How many people know what ailerons are? If the purpose of the article was to simply report on the malfunction of the aileron. Don’t you think that a caption reading: ‘American Eagle Aileron Malfunctions’ would suffice?
SMH, where does your education and intelligence lie?
Either the date or something is incorrect because I was on that flight to Dominica on the 17th September and we were unable to land.
We landed in Guadeloupe where we were told besides the bad weather they had mechanical issues and then had to be transferred to another plane to go back to Puerto Rico
No shit sherlock…
http://avherald.com/h?article=4446d03f&opt=0
its all about the people right to know
lets just thank god for his mercy and be glad that he was in charge and nothing happened. again thank you jesus you are great.
Smart people ask questions!! and proud and cocky people try to be-little them when they ask!!
On 17/9/11 the aircraft experienced difficulties with the ailerons on approaching DA. However they were able to have a safe landing.
But if all you thing faulty all u must expect to experience some difficulty. Why mention that at all?
They mentoined it after the fact, I agree -but do you think they would fly with faulty ailerons if they were aware of it?
what is the point here? I do not get it?
i agree what’s the point being brought forward?! we aren’t all educated to think like pilots
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basic english plz!
Three people are uneducated. Do you guys have to be spoon fed with information all the time?
Read and draw conclusions. My God!
anonymous;
avoid the too smart attitude.
impart all the knowledge you can whenever and whereever and stay blessed
agreeing with you 100%
I thought the same thing… it was a mechanical error… so was there a point of the article being on DNO? I do not see any point other than to say a plane experienced difficulties… but maybe I missed something that Anonymous caught!
Dominica is not at blame here so…the relevance is lost upon me…