Incident Overview

Description
The crew performed a commercial flight regular from Aeroparque Jorge Newbery to the Salta airport. The pilot, after make the approximation visual night to runway 01, made the landing on the main gear and to lower the nose wheel, proceeded to take the reversers. When the aircraft was approximately 100 Carat began a vibration in the area of the landing gear’s nose, which was increasing as speed was reduced. To take command of nose wheel, the pilot noticed that the same was not effective and could not prevent a slight shift to the left of the axis of the track, until the aircraft stopped. Stopped the engines and to assess that there was no major damage or fire, was reported to the TWR of Control and passengers for the inconvenience and authorized the descent of the same, which was carried out in an orderly manner. The accident occurred at night. During a commercial flight regular, in the phase of the landing and after the curfew, loss of directional control, causing minor damage to the aircraft, by rupture of the scissors
Source of Information
http://www.jiaac.gob.ar/files/pdf/Bol30.pdfhttp://www.jiaac.gob.ar/files/pdf/Bol30.pdfPrimary Cause
Loss of directional control during descent due to vibration in the landing gear nose.Loss of directional control during descent due to vibration in the landing gear nose.Share on: