ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 323942
| Date: | Sunday 26 July 1998 |
| Time: | 23:55 |
| Type: |  Fairchild FH-227B |
| Owner/operator: | Legion Express |
| Registration: | N564LE |
| MSN: | 564 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1967 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 33406 hours |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Keflavík International Airport (KEF) -
 Iceland
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Aberdeen-Dyce Airport (ABZ/EGPD) |
| Keflavík International Airport (KEF/BIKF) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
On final approach, when the landing gears were extended, the crew heard loud cracking noise. The landing was aborted and the aircraft passed the tower for visual inspection and one of the crew went to the cabin for visual check of the landing gears where he observed that the right landing gear lock strut rear member had broken loose from the side member assembly and was hanging down. Upon touchdown the gear folded up and the aircraft right propeller, wing tip and bottom of the fuselage touched ground and the aircraft went off the runway in a gentle right turn. The fuselage bottom skin and frame structure sustained extensive damage and the right wing tip, propeller blades, lock strut assembly and drag strut were destroyed.
The aircraft operated on a ferry flight from Billund in Denmark to Opa-Locka, Florida, USA, with en route stops at among others Aberdeen and Keflavík.
Preliminary investigation revealed that no lubricant was found in the lock strut hinge pin that should normally be packed with grease.
Sources:
NTSB
Location
Images:
photo (c) via W. Fischdick; Billund Airport (BLL); August 1996
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