Incident Overview
Date: Saturday 5 January 1974
Aircraft Type: Lockheed 18-56-23 Lodestar
Owner/operator: Aeropesca Colombia
Registration Number: HK-1146
Location: Bogot -Eldorado Airport (BOG) –
ÿ Colombia
Phase of Flight: Landing
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Component Affected: Landing gearLanding gear
Category: Accident
An aircraft experienced a critical failure during a co-pilot training exercise at Flandes, resulting in a runway excursion and a drainage ditch landing. A hydraulic system leak caused a loss of hydraulic fluid, leading to ineffective braking and a departure from the runway.An aircraft experienced a critical failure during a co-pilot training exercise at Flandes, resulting in a runway excursion and a drainage ditch landing. A hydraulic system leak caused a loss of hydraulic fluid, leading to ineffective braking and a departure from the runway.
Description
The aircraft had carried out several takeoffs and landings at Flandes for co-pilot type training. During the last takeoff the landing gear failed to retract. The Lodestar returned to Bogot were a flapless landing was carried out on runway 12. Braking attempts proved ineffective, causing the plane to depart the runway, coming to rest in a drainage ditch. It appeared that a pressure line in the hydraulic system was broken in the right landing gear well, causing a leak of hydraulic fluid.
Primary Cause
Hydraulic system leak in the landing gear well.Hydraulic system leak in the landing gear well.Share on:
