SIA A330 nose gear retraction/collapse at SIN

[MEL_Traveller]

Nose gear collapse/retraction at gate. No pax on board.

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Love the comment 'oh dear, I have always trusted Singapore Airlines'.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Pics courtesy SQ Talk:



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[Flying Fox]

Glad no one was on the steps (at a guess) at the time of the accident.

Have the engines hit the ground too?

 

[a330j]

Hope it wasn't Homer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhovv6MPlbA

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Glad no one was on the steps (at a guess) at the time of the accident.

Have the engines hit the ground too?

I was wondering about the engines.

Looks like it's ripped off the door as well - lucky the slide didn't drop and inflate!

 

[Cruiser Elite]

More here. ..........................

 

[jb747]

I was wondering about the engines.

Looks like it's ripped off the door as well - lucky the slide didn't drop and inflate!

The slide can't inflate. The door was already open, so it (the slide) can't engage.

This is an own goal. The hydraulics have been pressurised, and the gear selected up. The only reason that the mains haven't retracted too, is that the hydraulic systems simply don't have enough power to do so....the nose gear on the other hand is easy. The gear pins should have been inserted, which would have stopped the gear from moving, even with the up selection.

 

[UP4014]

Glad no one was on the steps (at a guess) at the time of the accident.

Have the engines hit the ground too?

A new Larson cartoon in the making.......

 

[MEL_Traveller]

The slide can't inflate. The door was already open, so it (the slide) can't engage.

I was thinking given the somewhat unusual fashion in which the door was ripped off, if part of the slide got caught somewhere (between the door and the frame, or the jet-bridge and the frame) and the rest dropped, it could have been enough to initiate inflation.

 

[Flying Fox]

This is an own goal. The hydraulics have been pressurised, and the gear selected up. The only reason that the mains haven't retracted too, is that the hydraulic systems simply don't have enough power to do so....the nose gear on the other hand is easy. The gear pins should have been inserted, which would have stopped the gear from moving, even with the up selection.

Oh dear. So for the lack of a pin $'000 of damage were done.

Will be interesting to find out the final repair cost.

 

[legroom]

Oh dear. So for the lack of a pin $'000 of damage were done.

Will be interesting to find out the final repair cost.

The Space Shuttle Challenger's O ring was apparently quite cheap too (relative to the shuttle).

 

[jb747]

The Space Shuttle Challenger's O ring was apparently quite cheap too (relative to the shuttle).

Gear pins exist on all retractable gear aircraft. For the A380, they are about 2 cm thick, and about 20 cm long. One pin for each of the five gear sets. They are inserted and removed on a regular basis, and each time it should be entered into the tech log. The pins themselves are kept in the coughpit.

I just read an article about Challenger, comparing it to the current VW issues. The main thrust wasn't so much that a single decision was taken to be cheap, or to circumvent rules, but rather that engineering decisions were made that gradually accepted outliers as normal. A bit like the frog and boiling water....

 

[Rareified Air]

Oh dear. So for the lack of a pin $'000 of damage were done.

Will be interesting to find out the final repair cost.

Try Millions in damages not to mention lost time in service, lost gate revenue whilst plane moved, etc, etc.
A fuel pump for an A320 costs about £350K to give you some idea of potential scale.

 

[Flying Fox]

Try Millions in damages not to mention lost time in service, lost gate revenue whilst plane moved, etc, etc.
A fuel pump for an A320 costs about £350K to give you some idea of potential scale.

I said thousands because I thought millions sounded crazy.