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Also seeAccident: Exin AN26 at Tallinn on Aug 25th 2010, gear retracted during takeoff roll
created Wednesday, Aug 25th 2010 22:53Z, last updated Thursday, Aug 26th 2010 09:24Z
PHOTO : SP-FDP on the belly
An Exin Antonov AN-26 on behalf of DHL, registration SP-FDP performing flight EXN-3788 from Tallinn (Estonia) to Helsinki (Finland) with 4 crew, rejected takeoff from Tallinn's runway 08 at high speed when the crew received an unsafe gear indication and the gear started to collapse or retract during the takeoff roll.
The airplane skidded to a stop on its belly, no injuries occurred.
The airplane with a reported gross weight of 25 tonnes was lifted by cranes, a wheeled trailer was moved underneath the aircraft.
Subsequently the airplane was lowered onto the trailer and the trailer with the airplane was towed off the runway.
Tallinn Airport was closed for 4.5 hours as a result.
The airline reported, that the accident was caused by human error.
During the takeoff run well before becoming airborne the nose gear will be lifted off the runway and roll continued on the main wheels.
Upon that rotation the flight engineer retracted the gear prematurely.
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