ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 323598
| Date: | Monday 27 December 1999 |
| Time: | 05:50 |
| Type: |  Boeing 737-377 |
| Owner/operator: | Ansett Australia Airlines |
| Registration: | VH-CZM |
| MSN: | 24302/1618 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1988 |
| Engine model: | CFMI CFM56-3B1 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Melbourne-Tullamarine Airport, VIC (MEL) -
 Australia
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| Phase: | Pushback / towing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Melbourne-Tullamarine Airport, VIC (MEL/YMML) |
| Sydney-Kingsford Smith International Airport, NSW (SYD/YSSY) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
During the pre-departure preparations, one end of a towbar was connected to the nose landing gear of a Boeing 737 aircraft and a pushback tractor was positioned approximately one metre from the towbar's opposite end. A ground engineer subsequently started the tractor with the intention of hooking up to the towbar. When the engineer released the handbrake, the tractor lurched forward and struck the towbar. The force of the impact fractured the aircraft nose landing gear drag brace. The nose landing gear assembly then pivoted back under the aircraft, becoming jammed between the towbar and the aircraft fuselage.
The investigation was unable to determine the reason for the sudden movement of the pushback tractor.
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