An A320 dispatched with pack 1 inoperative and the during descent at 15;000' pack 2 faulted. The air...

Narrative:

We were on a descent and approach when at 15000' we had an ECAM message air pack 2 fault. We dispatched with an inoperative pack 1. We did the ECAM procedure and tried to restore pack 2 which was causing the system fault. We could not get pack 2 back on line. We thought that pack 2 would come back on line with the increase of power and more bleed pressure. It did not work and at this time we were below 10;000' and the cabin pressure never exceeded 8;000' so we decided to extend the approach because our cabin rate of descent matched our aircraft descent. We tried to keep our pressure changes to a minimum. We continued the approach and landed with no further problems and taxied in and contacted maintenance and wrote up the event.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An A320 dispatched with Pack 1 inoperative and the during descent at 15;000' Pack 2 faulted. The aircraft cabin was at 8;000' and a slow descent to the airport was made for passenger comfort.

Narrative: We were on a descent and approach when at 15000' we had an ECAM message AIR PACK 2 FAULT. We dispatched with an inoperative Pack 1. We did the ECAM procedure and tried to restore pack 2 which was causing the system fault. We could not get Pack 2 back on line. We thought that Pack 2 would come back on line with the increase of power and more bleed pressure. It did not work and at this time we were below 10;000' and the cabin pressure never exceeded 8;000' so we decided to extend the approach because our cabin rate of descent matched our aircraft descent. We tried to keep our pressure changes to a minimum. We continued the approach and landed with no further problems and taxied in and contacted Maintenance and wrote up the event.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	853124
Time
Date	200909
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A320
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Descent
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Air Conditioning and Pressurization Pack
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Not Flying
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 80 Flight Crew Total 9000 Flight Crew Type 1000
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe

An A320 dispatched with pack 1 inoperative and the during descent at 15;000' pack 2 faulted. The aircraft cabin was at 8;000' and a slow descent to the airport was made for passenger comfort.