Date:	Thursday 14 January 2016
Time:	12:14 LT
Type:	Cessna 402B
Owner/operator:	Reconnaissance Ventures Ltd
Registration:	G-MAPP
MSN:	402B0583
Year of manufacture:	2001
Engine model:	Turbomeca MAKILA 1A2
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	East Midlands Airport (EMA/EGNX) -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Survey
Departure airport:	East Midlands Airport (EMA/EGNX)
Destination airport:	East Midlands Airport (EMA/EGNX)
Investigating agency:	AAIB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
AAIB investigation to Cessna 402B, G-MAPP; Substantial damage due to Left main landing gear collapsed during landing roll, East Midlands Airport, 14 January 2016. The incident was the subject of an AAIB Investigation, and the following is the summary from the AAIB Report:

"At 11:41 hrs, G-MAPP took off from Runway 27 at East Midlands Airport. On board was an instructor, and two pilots who had recently joined the operator, who were learning to fly this aircraft type. This was the second conversion flight for the new joiners; one was occupying the left pilot’s seat, and the other sat in the cabin to observe his colleague.

The instructor occupied the right pilot’s seat. The weather conditions were good, and the crosswind component of the wind, at 11 kt, was within the company limit of 16 kt for this aircraft type.

The aircraft flew two approaches to overshoot and two touch-and-goes, before taking off again, prior to its fifth approach. For this fifth approach the instructor planned to demonstrate a flapless approach to a full stop landing. The VREF was calculated as 108 kt and an uneventful approach was flown, with the landing gear confirmed as indicating fully down by all on board, to a landing which was described as smooth. After landing, as the aircraft was slowing down; the left wing began to sink and the left propeller made contact with the ground.

The instructor made a MAYDAY call but was unable to keep the aircraft on the runway, and it came to rest on the grass just to the south of the runway, west of intersection ‘S’. The instructor made the aircraft safe and the crew, who were uninjured, evacuated the aircraft.

Taxiway ‘S’ is located close to the fire station and fire crews were quickly on scene, but there was no fire.

One Safety Recommendation was made:
Safety Recommendation 2016-049 It is recommended that Textron Aviation informs operators of Cessna 300 and 400-series aircraft of the actions required to ensure that the set screw, which retains the main gear down lock pin, is properly installed in the side brace down lock link and, in addition, amends the aircraft maintenance manuals to include this information.

=Damage sustained to airframe=
Per the AAIB report "Damage to the left main landing gear, left wingtip and aileron, and blade tips of the left propeller. Left engine shock-loaded". The aircraft was later deemed as "damaged beyond economic repair", and the registration G-MAPP was cancelled on 13 April 2016 as "Permanently Withdrawn from Use"

1. AAIB Report: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/578ded4840f0b652dd00014a/Cessna_402B_G-MAPP_08-16.pdf
2. https://www.hinckleytimes.net/news/local-news/flights-suspended-east-midlands-airport-10734756
3. https://www.burtonmail.co.uk/Aircraft-crashes-runway-landing-gear-fails-East/story-28528778-detail/story.html
4. http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/grassroots/east-midlands-airport-shut-after-crash-landing-1-7675506
5. https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/East-Midlands-Airport-incident/story-28528729-detail/story.html
6. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-leicestershire-35266955
7. https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/G-MAPP.html
8. https://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=98482
9. https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/G-MAPP.html
10. https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N1445G.html
11. https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/D-INRH.html
12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Midlands_Airport

This Cessna 402B was built in 1974, and first registered the United States as N1445G. It was later re-registered in (West) Germany as D-INRH with GTP (Gesellschaft für Technische Photogrammetrie).

The aircraft was first UK registered as G-MAPP on 16 April 1999. As the registration indicates, the aircraft is fitted out for air-to-ground photography and survey missions. G-MAPP was re-registered to new owners on 6 January 2006 and 9 March 2009.

After the incident at East Midlands Airport on 14 January 2016, the aircraft was deemed to be "damaged beyond economic repair", and the registration G-MAPP was cancelled on 13 April 2016 as "Permanently Withdrawn from Use"

G-MAPP Cessna 402B at Coventry Airport (CVT/EGBE) on 8 October 2009:

AAIB report on Cessna training flight landing gear collapse 14 Jan 16 https://t.co/DgjIc3cBYo pic.twitter.com/GosRAAeHGs

— AAIB (@aaibgovuk) August 11, 2016

LIVE: A Cessna-G-MAPP-has suffered a gear collapse at East Midlands, UK - a/c now holding #airlivenet pic.twitter.com/MShE4QWi8n

— ✈️Nik's News✈️ (@NikPhillips666) January 14, 2016

Following the earlier incident at the airport, please see latest statement on our FB page https://t.co/ARuHnOM2L5 The airport has reopened

— East Mids Airport (@EMA_Airport) January 14, 2016

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
14-Jan-2016 13:58	gerard57	Added
14-Jan-2016 14:00	harro	Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Narrative, ]
14-Jan-2016 16:12	Geno	Updated [Time, Total occupants, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
14-Jan-2016 16:45	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ]
14-Jan-2016 17:05	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Time, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ]
15-Jul-2016 15:38	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Location, Source, Damage, Narrative, ]
07-Oct-2016 13:25	Dr.John Smith	Updated [Embed code, ]
04-Jan-2018 17:01	Aerossurance	Updated [Time, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Damage, Narrative, ]
10-May-2024 18:56	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Damage, Narrative, Category, ]
11-May-2024 19:34	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative, ]