Date: | Saturday 12 February 2000 |
Time: | 00:56 |
Type: | Airbus A300B4-203 |
Owner/operator: | Air Afrique |
Registration: | TU-TAT |
MSN: | 282 |
Year of manufacture: | 1983 |
Total airframe hrs: | 38400 hours |
Cycles: | 19600 flights |
Engine model: | General Electric CF6-50C2 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 182 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Dakar-Yoff Airport (DKR) -
Senegal
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Phase: | Taxi |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Dakar-Yoff Airport (DKR/GOOY) |
Destination airport: | Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG/LFPG) |
Confidence Rating: | Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Narrative:Taxiing to the runway for a departure to Paris, the left main gear unsafe alarm sounded. The crew elected to return to the parking area. While taxiing back, the left main gear retracted, causing the no. 1 engine to strike the ground. A fire broke out in the vicinity of this engine and the aircraft was quickly evacuated.
PROBABLE CAUSE: A crossing of the flexible tubing of the hydraulic connection controlling the locking of the left gear.
Sources:
ICAO Adrep Summary 2/00 (#2)
Tommy Maurer
Location
Images:
photo (c) Jan Mogren; Dakar-Yoff Airport (DKR); 12 February 2000
photo (c) Werner Fischdick; Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG); 31 May 1998
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