Created Tuesday, Jan 10th 2023 20:01Z, last updated Thursday, Jan 12th 2023 20:49Z
An Air Canada Airbus A330-300, registration C-GHLM performing flight
AC-885 from Geneva (Switzerland) to Montreal,QC (Canada), was climbing out of Geneva when the crew reported they had difficulties handling the aircraft. The crew stopped the climb at FL220 and diverted to Lyon (France) for a safe landing on runway 17R about 75 minutes after departure.
Passengers reported the crew announced they had problems with a computer.
According to information The Aviation Herald received a drain mast heater had failed.
On Jan 12th 2023 the Canadian TSB reported the crew noticed navigation errors, they were unable to fly planned waypoints and shortly afterwards lost all navigation. The crew declared PAN PAN and diverted to Lyon where maintenance conducted a complete reset of the inertial reference system.
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