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| Title: | Landing gear failure on landing, Accident of aircraft Fokker MK-100, registration I-ALPL, at Barcelona Airport (Barcelona), on 7 November 1999 |
| Micro summary: | On landing, a shimmy leads to gear failure and an evacuation. |
| Event Time: | 1999-11-07 at 1355 UTC |
| File Name: | 1999-11-07-ES.pdf |
| Publishing Agency: | Civil Aviation Accident and Incident Investigation Commission (CIAIAC) |
| Publishing Country: | Spain |
| Report number: | A-068/1999 |
| Pages: | 57 |
| Site of event: | Landing Barcelona, Runway 25 |
| Departure: | Marco Polo International Airport, Venice, Italy |
| Destination: | Barcelona International Airport, El Prat de Llobregat, Spain |
| Airplane Type(s): | Fokker F-100 |
| Flight Phase: | Landing |
| Registration(s): | I-ALPL |
| Operator(s): | Air Dolomiti (Alpi Eagles) |
| Type of flight: | Revenue |
| Occupants: | 44 |
| Fatalities: | 0 |
| Serious Injuries: | 0 |
| Minor/Non-Injured: | 44 |
| Other Injuries: |
| Executive Summary: | The aircraft Fokker MK-100, registration I-ALPL, operated by Alpi Eagles on behalf of Air Dolomiti, landed in Barcelona on 7 November 1999 at 13:55 UTC. It was making a commercial flight, DLA 2708, from Venice to Barcelona with a crew of five and 39 passengers on board. Moments after the first contact of the wheels on touchdown on runway 25, the right-hand landing gear suffered a phenomenon of shimmy vibration, of divergent amplitude, which in a few seconds caused the breakage of the main fitting of the right-hand main landing gear (RH-MLG). The vibration was not damped, due to the low damping capacity of the shimmy damper caused by a defect of the component. After RH-MLG failure, the aircraft leaned to the right dragging the right hand wing tip and flap over the runway surface. It run about 1,000 m over the paved surface crushing several runway edge lights, until it came to a halt in a grassy patch between two taxiways 100 m to the right of the runway centre line. The crew and passengers evacuated the aircraft in an orderly manner via the evacuation slide of the forward right-hand service/emergency door. No fire was caused. The aircraft suffered considerable damage to the wing and the cowlings of the right-hand engine, and also to the doors of the right-hand main landing gear leg. |
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