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Accident: Wideroe DH8A at Sandnessjoen on Sep 15th 2010, main gear collapse on landing
By Simon Hradecky, created Wednesday, Sep 15th 2010 11:27Z, last updated Wednesday, Sep 15th 2010 17:01Z
A Wideroe de Havilland Dash 8-100, registration LN-WIF performing flight WF-701 from Bodo to Sandnessjoen (Norway) with 3 passengers and 4 crew,
landed at Sandnessjoen's runway 03 at 05:57L (03:57Z) when the right hand main landing gear collapsed.
The airplane came to a stop on the runway about abeam of the tower. No injuries occurred.
The airline said in their press release, that the airplane touched down so hard that parts of the landing gear collapsed.
A spokesman for the airline explained, that the airplane caught a gust during flare which caused the airplane to touch down that hard.
He later went on saying, that Sandnessjoen is notorious for downdrafts due to the nearby mountain range,
the wind conditions today however were not particularly difficult and the winds were far below all limits, basically just normal.
One of the pilots had recently joined Wideroe and was under supervision with an instructor occupying the observer's seat.
Norway's Havarikommission have dispatched three investigators to Sandnessjoen.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... nding.html
DATE:15/09/10
SOURCE:Air Transport Intelligence news
Wideroe Dash 8 suffers gear collapse in hard landing
By David Kaminski-Morrow
Investigators in Norway are on their way to examine a Wideroe Bombardier Dash 8-100 aircraft which suffered a main landing-gear collapse during a domestic service to Sandnessjoen.
No-one on board the aircraft - just three passengers and four crew members - was injured in the accident, which occurred at 06:00, but the airport, in the north of Norway, has been closed.
Wideroe states that the aircraft "hit the runway so hard that parts of the undercarriage collapsed" during landing. The damage primarily involves the right-hand main gear.
The aircraft, identified as serial number 372, registered LN-WIF, is a 16-year old example which Flightglobal's ACAS database lists as being owned by the carrier.
It has achieved more than 32,000 flight hours in over 66,000 cycles.
Wideroe says the aircraft was travelling from Bodo to Sandnessjoen.
Norwegian airports operator Avinor says its fire and rescue teams were "quickly on site", and that the air accidents investigation board has been notified.
SAS Group, Wideroe's parent company, replaced the fleet of Bombardier Q400 turboprops operated by Wideroe and Scandinavian Airlines after experiencing a spate of gear-collapse incidents three years ago -
although it subsequently selected Bombardier's NextGen version of the Q400 to renew the fleets at Wideroe and then-affiliate Air Baltic.
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