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| Title: | Aircraft incident at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, December 7, 1997, Finland |
| Micro summary: | Due to a fuel loading error, this MD-81 required 70 degrees of control wheel input to keep the wings level. |
| Event Time: | 1997-12-07 at 1332 UTC |
| File Name: | 1997-12-07-FI.pdf |
| Publishing Agency: | Finland Accident Investigation Board (AIB) |
| Publishing Country: | Finland |
| Report number: | C 32/1997 L |
| Pages: | 13 |
| Site of event: | Helsinki, climb |
| Departure: | Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, Helsinki, Finland |
| Destination: | Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, Helsinki, Finland |
| Airplane Type(s): | McDonnell Douglas DC-9-81 (MD-81) |
| Flight Phase: | Takeoff |
| Registration(s): | LN-RMM |
| Operator(s): | SAS |
| Type of flight: | Revenue |
| Occupants: | 70 |
| Fatalities: | 0 |
| Serious Injuries: | 0 |
| Minor/Non-Injured: | 70 |
| Other Injuries: | 0 |
| Executive Summary: | On Sunday, December 7, 1997 departed the flight SK705 from Helsinki to Stockholm. There were 65 passengers and 5 crew members on board, the aircraft used was DC-9-81 and the flight was operated by SAS. The aircraft was refuelled at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport before the departure. The fuel had to be transferred from the center tank to the left main tank to divide the quantities of fuel equally. The aircraft departed normally, however, as soon as it was in the air, it banked to the left so that a pilot had to turn the control wheel 70 degrees to keep the wings level. The airplane returned to the origin successfully. |
| Learning Keywords: | Operations - Loading |
| Operations - Upset - Uncommanded or excessive Roll | |
| Systems - Flight Controls - Flap Configuration | |
| Systems - Fuel |
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