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| Title: | Ground collision, Incident of the aircraft Airbus A-340-313, registered EC-GPB, at Salamanca Airport on 8 November 2002 |
| Micro summary: | A340 strikes electrical equipment while landing, thus triggering a missed approach and eventual successful landing. |
| Event Time: | 2002-11-08 at 1401 UTC |
| File Name: | 2002-11-08-ES.pdf |
| Publishing Agency: | Civil Aviation Accident and Incident Investigation Commission (CIAIAC) |
| Publishing Country: | Spain |
| Report number: | IN-076/2002 |
| Pages: | 52 |
| Site of event: | Landing, Madrid-Barajas Airport |
| Departure: | Salamanca Airport, Salamanca, Spain |
| Destination: | Madrid Barajas International Airport, Madrid, Spain |
| Airplane Type(s): | Airbus A340-313 |
| Flight Phase: | Landing |
| Registration(s): | EC-GPB |
| Operator(s): | Iberia |
| Type of flight: | Engineering Test Flight |
| Occupants: | 10 |
| Fatalities: | 0 |
| Serious Injuries: | 0 |
| Minor/Non-Injured: | 10 |
| Other Injuries: | 0 |
| Executive Summary: | During a maintenance test flight, while distracted by and avoiding a flock of birds, an A340 struck equipment while landing at Salamanca. After going airborne again, the airplane did a fly-past and eventually landed successfully at Madrid-Barajas Airport. |
| Learning Keywords: | Operations - Birdstrike |
| Operations - In-flight Collision with Ground Structure |
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