Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Situational Awareness
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe
Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance; Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft
Descending to 14;000 feet; with Center. Lost F-PLN on FMS. Notified Center of loss of navigation capability and asked for radar vectors. I was unable to restore any navigation capability on the Captain MCDU. Transferred aircraft control to me. First Officer was unable to restore any navigation capability on the First Officer MCDU. Advised Approach Control. Approach provided radar vectors to final for the ILS. Manually tuned and identified the ILS. I flew ILS approach to a normal landing. FMS system failure.
A330 Captain reported experiencing a dual MCDU failure during descent for landing and requested vectors to the ILS from ATC.