Netherlands Airbus A330 MRTT Emergency Landing With Refueling Hose Extends

Earlier this August there was an incident that happened to the Airbus A330-243 MRTT (Multi-role Tanker Transport) tanker aircraft belonging to the Royal Netherlands Air Force which is part of the NATO Multinational MRTT Fleet (MMF). 

It happened at Eindhoven Airport, the Netherlands, this type of multirole tanker aircraft which was also eyed by the Indonesian Air Force was forced to make an emergency landing with the refueling hose position or the left refueling hose sticking out because it could not be pulled into the pod.

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According to ADS-B Exchange monitoring, the plane circled above Eindhoven Airport for about an hour. Realizing that something was wrong, the pilot then reported to the Airport ATC regarding the problem that had befallen him.

The ATC officer then asked the pilot to fly even lower at an altitude of about five hundred feet to make sure the A330 MRTT drogue was properly dangling and could not be pulled back.

After confirming that the refueling hose is in the off the port wing or dangling position, the ATC officer guides the cockpit crew to make an emergency landing on Runway 03, of course with various bad consequences that will befall.

Sure enough, after landing, in the transmission recordings obtained by the plane's scouts, the ATC officer visually confirmed that the drogue or wingtip to connect the sender's refueling hose to the probe on the receiving plane, damaged the runway light.

Officers also visually confirmed the presence of metal debris scattered on the runway at the same time as the plane's emergency landing. The cause of the left aerial refueling hose of the aircraft with the factory number MSN 1945 is not yet known. The extent of the damage to the left aerial refueling hose, runway light, and the runway itself has yet to be confirmed.

Thedrive.com reports, Eindhoven is indeed one of the two NATO tanker fleet homes. Airbus began delivering the first of the nine MRTT A330 aircraft ordered by MFF in June 2020 after the ceremony at the Airbus Getafe site, Spain.

The MMF is led by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) with strong support from the Organization for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR), under NATO ownership and operated by international units.

The international unit in question, of course, comes from NATO members, in this case six member countries; starting from Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway, and the Netherlands.

“These state-of-the-art aircraft are configured for a variety of missions, from air-to-air refueling (both boom, hose and drogue), to troop transport, VIP transport, cargo/goods transport and they can also be reconfigured for aeromedical evacuation,” NATO wrote in a statement.

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The strategic tanker aircraft with the transport capability is known to be capable of loading 111 tons of fuel and refueling various types of fighter and transport aircraft used by NATO member countries. This A330-based aircraft is known to have been used by 11 countries and received 68 orders until last July.

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