Alaska Airlines A320 Diverts With Anti Ice And Avionics Failure
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An Alaska Airlines Airbus A320 was forced to divert to Los Angeles earlier this week after a mid-flight avionics and anti-ice failure. The aircraft was operating a scheduled passenger service from Columbus to Seattle on Wednesday when the incident occurred.
An Alaska Airlines Airbus diverted to Los Angeles on Wednesday evening. Photo: Getty Images
Seattle bound Alaska Airlines flight diverts to Los Angeles
According to a report by Simon Hradecky in The Aviation Herald, the Alaska Airlines Airbus A320-200 (registered as N848VA) was operating AS1193 on Wednesday evening (local time). The plane was approximately 1,300 kilometers east of Seattle when the decision was made to divert. Complicating matters was a weather system developing over the Rockies at the time.