TAM A332 at New York on Sep 26th 2012, nose gear steering fault cleared on touch down
Last Update: September 26, 2012 / 23:31:05 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Sep 26, 2012
Classification
Incident
Airline
TAM Linhas Aereas
Flight number
JJ-8078
Departure
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Destination
New York JFK, United States
Aircraft Registration
PT-MVQ
Aircraft Type
Airbus A330-200
ICAO Type Designator
A332
The crew requested another approach to runway 22R, positioned for another approach and was on final approach to 22R 18 minutes later in contact with tower, when the tower told the crew he was told the nose gear appeared to be in the wrong position, the crew reported the nose gear was indicated down, they just had no nose wheel steering and wanted to continue the landing. A few seconds later tower, quite alerted, advised the nose gear appeared to be sideways, the crew decided to go around from about 200 feet MSL.
The crew subsequently reported on departure that everything appeared normal with the nose gear except for a steering fault, but tower reported the nose gear was turned sideways, so the crew wanted to run the checklists and were preparing for another approach. Departure offered runway 31L which was accepted, the aircraft positioned for the approach, departure subsequently relayed a message of TAM maintenance to the crew to reset a switch related to the nose gear steering. The crew subsequently reported the fault had cleared and everything was now clear, the captain advised they were now going to land on runway 31L. On short final the crew checked with tower whether the nose gear appeared normal, tower advised it did not appear normal but appeared to be rotated by 90 degrees. The aircraft landed safely on JFK's runway 31L about 45 minutes after aborting the first approach and vacated the runway, tower reported that upon touchdown the nose gear appeared to straighten out.
After turning off the runway the aircraft stopped on taxiway P and shut down, emergency vehicles checked the nose gear. Emergency services reported there was no visible anomaly except for the head light which was cracked. The aircraft was subsequently towed to the apron.
A photo by a ground observer confirmed the nose wheels were rotated about 80 degrees out of direction of movement during the last final approach to runway 31L.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Sep 26, 2012
Classification
Incident
Airline
TAM Linhas Aereas
Flight number
JJ-8078
Departure
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Destination
New York JFK, United States
Aircraft Registration
PT-MVQ
Aircraft Type
Airbus A330-200
ICAO Type Designator
A332
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