Status:	Final
Date:	05 MAR 1989
Time:	14:17
Type:	Fokker 100
Operator:	KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Registration:	PH-KLC
C/n / msn:	11268
First flight:	1989-01-10 (2 months)
Total airframe hrs:	133
Cycles:	268
Engines:	2 Rolls Royce 620-15 Tay
Crew:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Passengers:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 95
Total:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 100
Airplane damage:	Substantial
Airplane fate:	Repaired
Location:	Genève-Cointrin Airport (GVA) (Switzerland)
Phase:	Landing (LDG)
Nature:	International Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	Amsterdam-Schiphol International Airport (AMS/EHAM), Netherlands
Destination airport:	Genève-Cointrin Airport (GVA/LSGG), Switzerland
Flightnumber:	321

Narrative:
A Fokker 100 passenger jet, PH-KLC, sustained substantial damage in a landing accident at Genève-Cointrin Airport (GVA), Switzerland. All 95 passengers and five crew members survived.
Flight KL321 had departed Amsterdam-Schiphol International Airport (AMS) at 13:06 local time on an international flight to Genève-Cointrin Airport (GVA). The flight was uneventful. At the end of the approach in the automatic mode, the aircraft landed gently on runway 23. Immediately after the aircraft developed severe vibration, which increased causing the fracture of the left main landing gear leg. The left wing struck the runway and the airplane came to rest at the left runway edge.

CAUSE: The accident was due to the rupture of the left main landing gear after the occurrence of severe vibration.
Contributing to the accident:
- Insufficient damping of the main landing gear and its connection to the structure as a dynamic system;
- Random, simultaneous occurrence of factors that caused a resonant oscillation of the left main landing gear.

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