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SriLankan Airbus A320 suffers multiple in-flight failures, declares emergency

Aerotime

The flight crew initially received a cockpit indication that the first officer’s anti-ice system had failed, along with a ‘Pitot Standby’ message. Aircraft are fitted with pitot tubes to assist in providing air speed data to the pilots. They received a block clearance between 30,000ft and 35,000ft.

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Trial by Ice

Air Facts

I filed my IFR flight plan, received a clearance and took off into the gray winter sky. We entered the holding pattern over Jeff City, flew two circuits and finally received our approach clearance. It was also destroying the propellers air foils causing a loss of thrust. Phil was a cool head under pressure.

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