The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), citing a July event in which the crew of an Airbus A330 took off from Brisbane Airport with covers still attached to the airplane’s pitot probes, has issued a safety advisory calling for “rigorous processes” to ensure that the covers are removed before flight.
The investigation is continuing, but the ATSB said that the event involved a Malaysia Airlines A330, which landed at Brisbane airport at 2011 local time July 18, after a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and was scheduled for a 2320 departure on a return flight to Kuala Lumpur.
“Soon after the aircraft had landed, covers were placed on the aircraft’s three pitot probes,” the ATSB said in its preliminary report on the …
