Do not use aircraft number N-195DN for flights to Accra – GCAA writes to Delta Airlines

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The Ghana Civil Association Authority (GCAA) has cautioned Delta Airlines against using its aircraft with registration number N-195DN for flights to Accra.

The caution is contained in a letter dated August 19, 2022 addressed to the “Accountable Manager” at Delta Airlines.

This follows the “events of August 1st, 2022 in which the aircraft with registration number N195DN was forced to return to gate due to a technical problem.”

The GCAA said following the incident, it conducted an investigation to ascertain the circumstances that led to such an occurrence.

The Authority noted that the investigation revealed that:

The crew said a fuel imbalance with the left most important tank.
The inbound crew skilled this same issue on the flight leg to Accra i.e on 31st July, 2022.
This was once the equal aircraft that had to return to JFK on 25th July, 2022 a few hours after take-off from JFK and which used to be widely stated on in more than a few media outlets.

GCAA referred to that with the terrible reportage about the flight, they expected that “Delta Airlines would have entirely investigated the problem to arrive at the root reason of the failure earlier than dispatching the aircraft on flights.”
“Rather, the plane used to be flown within the United States a number of times and then dispatched once more to Accra, only for the trouble to reoccur,” GCAA added.

As a result, “the Authority finds this unacceptable” subsequently the brief denial of Delta aircraft with registration quantity N-195DN entry into Ghana.