Incident Overview
Description
Kalitta Air Flight 368, a Boeing 747-412BCF, struck a trash bin on takeoff from runway 25R at Los Angeles Airport, USA. The takeoff was aborted and the aircraft came to a stop on the runway near taxiway B6. The tower controller reported there was “an excessive smoke” coming from the nose gear. The flight crew shut down the aircraft on the runway to allow ARFF to inspect the aircraft. It appeared that both tyres of the nose gear had blown as result. Weather reported to the crew during the clearance for takeoff was Wind 330 at 14 knots, gusting to 26 knots. The accident aircraft was ferried to Kalitta’s Oscoda Airport Storage and Maintenance Base on March 5, 2020. Probable Cause: An unavoidable collision with a garbage dumpster that had blown into the path of the airplane during the takeoff roll.
Primary Cause
Unavoidable collision with a garbage dumpster during takeoff roll.Unavoidable collision with a garbage dumpster during takeoff roll.Share on:
