BA London City Airport crash jet not properly serviced
11.02.10
Safety maintenance work on a British Airways plane whose nose landing gear collapsed as it touched down at London City Airport last year had not been properly completed. As the plane, which had a crew of four on board, touched down on February 13 2009 at the end of a flight from Amsterdam, the nose landing gear penetrated the fuselage. Smoke filled the Avro 146 jet, carrying 67 passengers.
A fatigue crack led to the landing gear fracturing, an official investigation found. Improvement work on the plane had not been fully finished even though records at the American maintenance firm responsible showed it had been. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) also found there had been 'poor surface finish during manufacture' of the aircraft, necessitating the safety improvements which were not properly completed.
All the passengers were safely evacuated from the plane, 66 of them leaving via an emergency chute. Two people suffered minor injuries and the airport was shut for several hours.
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