Narrative:

The plane had flaps half speed MEL. We got flaps fail caution message during our climb out. First officer was selecting the flaps from eight degrees to zero degrees. We were doing the QRH for flaps fail while ATC was vectoring us for ILS. The caution message disappeared and we decided to operate the flaps. Since the flaps seemed to operate properly; we landed with full flaps. We decided to proceed with our arrival since we now had multiple problems with the flaps.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A CRJ-700 Captain reported FLAPS FAIL caution message on climb out. The flight crew ran the QRH and returned to departure airport.

Narrative: The plane had flaps half speed MEL. We got FLAPS FAIL caution message during our climb out. First Officer was selecting the flaps from eight degrees to zero degrees. We were doing the QRH for flaps fail while ATC was vectoring us for ILS. The caution message disappeared and we decided to operate the flaps. Since the flaps seemed to operate properly; we landed with full flaps. We decided to proceed with our arrival since we now had multiple problems with the flaps.

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.