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

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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.