Created Monday, Apr 26th 2021 15:56Z, last updated Monday, Apr 26th 2021 15:59Z
An American Airlines Airbus A321-200, registration N975UY performing flight
AA-2012 from Las Vegas,NV to Philadelphia,PA (USA), was climbing out of Las Vegas when the crew stopped the climb at FL250 due to a flaps indication and decided to divert to Phoenix,AZ (USA). Descending towards Phoenix the crew explained it was just an indication issue, not a hydraulic fault, the flaps system had lost all data from one side. The aircraft landed safely on Phoenix's runway 26 at about 161 knots over ground, slowed safely, vacated the runway about 2570 meters/8400 feet down the runway and taxied to the apron.
A replacement A321-200 registration N585UW reached Philadelphia with a delay of about 2:40 hours.
The occurrence aircraft returned to service after about 22.5 hours on the ground.
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