Incident at LCY

vulcan57

A BA arrival from Amsterdam suffered a collapsed nose wheel after a heavy landing at London City this evening. Looks like a 146 from Sky news.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7889728.stm

Foggy43

You did say in another thread

'Having been spotting at LCY, I know how steep they come in, some of them drop like a stone on approach'

vulcan57

Foggy43 wrote: »

You did say in another thread

'Having been spotting at LCY, I know how steep they come in, some of them drop like a stone on approach'

I know! Freaky isn't it. I was wondering if this is the problem, are these types too heavy for such steep approaches? A similar thing happened to, yet again, a BA flight on Feb 5th when a nose wheel was bent.

pclancy

Probably due to pilot error, a hard landing at best can result in angry passengers and at worst collapse of gear and aircraft damage. Time will tell.

ScabbyLeg

Strange enough for the nose gear to collapse from a hard landing, normally the main gears should take the brunt of the impact. Maybe the nose gear wasn't locked properly...

Tenger

Foggy43 wrote: »

'Having been spotting at LCY, I know how steep they come in, some of them drop like a stone on approach'

I always loved the flight in and out of LCY. Purely for the 'dropping like a stone' approach and then later the full throttle brakes release take off roll. Did them for about 2 years on the EI Bae146.