The European Aviation Safety Agency or EASA has issued an alert about Airbus A350s, which could cause combustion and subsequent exposure of aircraft fuel tanks.
A very important statement from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has warned of the existence of a possible 'chain of errors' that could generate a spontaneous fire in the fuel tanks of the aircraft model A350-941, of the group European Airbus, according to the media Welt. This represents an alert level, which is the highest level of urgency within the warnings that EASA can issue, where it warns of a concatenation of possible failures that would cause the hydraulic fluid to overheat, causing a fire when mixed with the air and fuel from the tank.
This EASA agency has commented that the tank explosion could occur when I know that inside the hydraulic pump, the cooling system of this stops working and the coolant, that if it is stored next to the fuel tanks, it could overheat . If for whatever reason, the problem is not detected and also the fuel explosion system (FTIS) is inactive for whatever reason, the mixture of air and fuel inside the tank could explode.
The Airbus company has spoken with Welt, that this problem of excessive heating could be quickly detected and solved thanks to a recent update of the aircraft computer systems. It should be noted that EASA publishes different safety notices to manufacturers and operators on a daily basis, but on rare occasions such alerts are given. It should be said that Airbus A350-900s are long-haul airplanes with a wide body that began operating at the end of 2014 and until 2016, no less than 94 units would have been delivered.
