NASA · Aviation Safety Reporting System
A320 Captain reported executing a go-around after encountering wake turbulence on final approach from a preceding B777. During the go-around the flight crew experienced fuel imbalance anomalies.
What is ASRS?
The Aviation Safety Reporting System is NASA's voluntary, confidential, non- punitive incident-reporting system, established 1976. Pilots, controllers, dispatchers, and maintenance technicians file reports describing safety- relevant events. NASA de-identifies every report before adding it to the public database. Reports are not investigated by NASA, the FAA, or the NTSB — they represent the reporter's perspective.
Pilot narrative
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At SFO, due to bad vectoring and wake turbulence from a Boeing 777, we had to perform a go-around on Runway 28L. When we went around, the fuel was 5.8 - it should have been 6.3, but due to winds and vectoring and altitude restrictions, it was 5.8. Upon performing the go-around, we got the FUEL L WING TK LO LVL ECAM. I followed the checklist for that ECAM. I also noticed that the left wing tank was significantly lower than the right, around 1500. Then we got the FUEL L TK PUMP 1+2 LO PR ECAM, which I also followed the checklist for. We landed without any problems with about 4.0 on the fuel level. After parking, I called Dispatch and Maintenance Control and they said the fuel shouldn't have been that imbalanced and Maintenance Control instructed me to make a maintenance log book entry, so I did. He said there were no other issues though, and that I did everything correctly and Dispatch agreed.
NASA classification — Anomalies
- Aircraft Equipment Problem
- ATC Issue
- Inflight Event / Encounter
NASA classification — Assessments
- Contributing Factors / Situations
- Aircraft · Environment - Non Weather Related · Procedure
- Primary Problem
- Procedure
ASRS reports are voluntarily submitted, de-identified by NASA, and represent the reporter's perspective. The presence of reports on a topic cannot be used to infer prevalence in the National Airspace System. The authoritative source is the NASA ASRS Database Online at asrs.arc.nasa.gov ↗.