B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 240; Flight Crew Total 18000; Flight Crew Type 8000
Training / Qualification; Troubleshooting
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical
Flight Crew FLC complied w / Automation / Advisory; Flight Crew Landed in Emergency Condition; Flight Crew Diverted; General Declared Emergency
Aircraft
Lost Hydraulic A System down to 12%. Called Dispatch and Maintenance Control. In holding for our destination when we started loosing more hydraulic fluid. Declared emergency and landed at a nearby divert airport. [Kept] Dispatch; Maintenance; flight attendants; passengers all in the loop. Landed normally. Stopped on runway for fire trucks to look us over and taxied into gate.
A B737 Captain declared an emergency then diverted to an enroute airport after loosing a large portion of the A Hydraulic system.