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Malaysia Airlines changes dispatch process after A330 incident

Malaysia Airlines has put in place procedures on the use and removal of pitot tube covers for aircraft using Brisbane airport, after an 18 July incident that saw one of its Airbus A330-300s return shortly after taking off with the covers still in-place on three probes. In its preliminary report on the incident, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said that the crew operating the A330 detected airspeed anomalies as the aircraft was on its take-off roll during a scheduled flight to Kuala Lumpur. Despite that, there was no indication on the cockpit voice recorders of the crew discussing rejecting the take-off, and after the aircraft took flight, they took actions for unreliable airspeed and made a ‘pan’ call to air traffic control advising that they had unreliable airspeed indicators. Story has details of incident.<br/>