A320
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Situational Awareness; Training / Qualification; Troubleshooting
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical
Flight Crew FLC complied w / Automation / Advisory; Flight Crew Landed in Emergency Condition; General Declared Emergency; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft
Approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes into flight received ECAM regarding low level hydraulic fluid in the green system. Complied with ECAM procedures; consulted QRH and follow up. Consulted all available flight deck information. Notified Maintenance Control; Dispatch; ATC and departure station Maintenance. Briefed Flight Attendants. Emergency gear extension was required; nose wheel steering; thrust reverser inop. Landed safely; had to be towed off the runway. After landing there was a cracked hydraulic line found in the green system.
An A320 ECAM alerted HYD G RSVR LO LVL at cruise and the QRH complied with. The flight continued to its destination where an emergency landing gear extension was completed and a landing followed without nose wheel steering or thrust reversers.