Incident Overview
Date: Wednesday 27 August 2003
Aircraft Type: Antonov An-2R
Owner/operator: private
Registration Number: LY-KAE
Location: near Mlga –
ÿ Sweden
Phase of Flight: Landing
Status: Substantial, repaired
Casualties: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Component Affected: Landing gear braking systemLanding gear braking system
Category: Accident
A local flight with a passenger experienced a nose-over landing due to an early and hard braking sequence after touchdown, exacerbated by insufficient information regarding landing distance from a height of 15 meters.A local flight with a passenger experienced a nose-over landing due to an early and hard braking sequence after touchdown, exacerbated by insufficient information regarding landing distance from a height of 15 meters.
Description
The pilot had made a local flight with a passenger from the district. On landing, which was performed with a tailwind component, the aircraft nosed over. PROBABLE CAUSE: “The accident was caused by the fact that braking after touchdown started too early and was too hard. A contributory factor was that the pilots planning of his landing was hampered by the lack of information, in the flight handbook, on the landing distance from a height of 15 m.”
Source of Information
https://www.airhistory.net/info/soviet.phphttps://www.airhistory.net/info/soviet.phpPrimary Cause
Early and hard braking sequence after touchdown, compounded by insufficient information regarding landing distance from a height of 15 meters.Early and hard braking sequence after touchdown, compounded by insufficient information regarding landing distance from a height of 15 meters.Share on:
