Srilankan A320 at Kochi on Nov 20th 2008, nose gear steering failed

The crew of a Srilankan Airlines Airbus A320-200, flight UL165 from Colombo (Sri Lanka) to Kochi (India) with 95 passengers and 7 crew, declared emergency due to a malfunction of the nose gear steering while on final approach to Kochi. The crew initiated a go-around and entered a holding in order to rectify the problem, but had to perform the landing with the fault. The airplane stopped safely on the runway and had to be towed off the runway after inspection by emergency services.
The runway was closed for about 45 minutes due to the emergency. Srilankan Airlines sent a replacement aircraft to perform the return flight UL166.
20/11/08 Simon Hradecky/The Aviation Herald, Austria

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