The PLL LOT aircraft operating the LO523 took off from Warsaw at 7:49 am already with a 12-minute hold compared to the planned schedule. According to Polsat News, the crew decided to return to the airport during their flight to Wroclaw.
LOT indicated that the reason was a method failure of the machine. As stressed, the decision was made in accordance with the applicable procedures and the aircraft landed safely in Warsaw.
"Due to the method failure of the aircraft operating the LO523 flight from Warsaw to Prague, the crew decided to return to the airport of departure – said Krzysztof Moczulski, the spokesperson for PLL LOT.
Cruise to Prague cancelled. What about the return flight?
Upon returning to the capital, it was decided to cancel the scheduled cruise to Prague. This besides means that the flight back from the Czech capital to Warsaw is not implemented. The carrier reported that passengers are to be diverted to further available connections. This means that they will change their booking to another flights in the carrier's grid, depending on the availability of the seats.
A method failure can cover many situations: from signals from on-board systems, through customized sensor indications, to problems that do not gotta mean direct danger, but require interruption of the cruise. The standard is prudential action, due to the fact that in specified cases the precedence is the anticipation of making a landing at the airport, which provides full method and operational support.
For the time being, the carrier has not provided details of the kind of responsibility or erstwhile the aircraft will return to regular rotation.
