Amsterdam Airlines A320 skids off taxiway

by lisha | August 9, 2009 at 10:51 pm

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august 2nd 2009
Amsterdam Airlines A320 PH-AAY (sn 527), scheduled for a flight from Maastricht-Aachen (EHBK) to Ankara Esenboga (LTAC), ended up next to the taxiway while taxiing out to RWY 21, reporting "we lost the nosewheel steering".

This is a problem Airbus has been aware of for well over 12 years - can't believe that they haven't resolved it and regretful that it's still causing incidents like this.

Failure to manage an inconsistency properly has been cited in several crashes of big jets from airbus manufacturers. Is it the airbus design itself or the year 2009 is to be blamed for airbus problems? How serious is this problem? Does it apply to all Airbus models A320, A321 A330 and A340 A350, as well.
Then airbus should ground its fleet and tackle with these serious problems. As if not mistaken every 2 to 3 days we get news of some airbus catching fire, or off runway, or off taxi?