Created Monday, Aug 9th 2021 10:07Z, last updated Monday, Aug 9th 2021 10:07Z
An Alaska Airlines Airbus A321-200N, registration N921VA performing flight
AS-628 from Seattle,WA to New York JFK,NY (USA), was enroute at FL310 about 280nm east of Seattle when the crew decided to return to Seattle. On approach the crew requested a long final and advised they had lost nose wheel steering, they would roll to the end of and stop on the runway. The aircraft landed safely on Seattle's runway 16L about 100 minutes after departure.
A replacement A321-200N registration N927VA reached New York with a delay of 4:45 hours.
The occurrence aircraft returned to service about 23 hours after landing.
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