Lease Fly AT42 at Lyon on Nov 3rd 2014, wheel and tyre damage on runway
Last Update: September 17, 2015 / 11:15:49 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Nov 3, 2014
Classification
Incident
Airline
Lease Fly
Flight number
CE-72
Departure
Lyon, France
Destination
Limoges, France
Aircraft Registration
CS-DTO
Aircraft Type
ATR ATR-42
ICAO Type Designator
AT42
The wheel was replaced and the aircraft subsequently towed off the runway.
The flight was cancelled.
A passenger reported the aircraft was accelerating and rejected takeoff after developing an unusual attitude. They disembarked onto the runway, one tyre was found fully deflated.
On Sep 16th 2015 Lease Fly forwarded documentation via their lawyer stating, that the aircraft was taxiing for departure from runway 18R, the crew observed an unusual attitude of their aircraft, left wing low, after turning off taxiway T onto holding point A3, no unusual sounds and no unusual indications, and radioed tower that they needed to return to the gate due to technical problems. Tower instructed them to enter the runway and vacate via the next taxiway, subsequently changed to A2. The aircraft entered the runway and taxied slowly, when the crew indicated they had problems and needed an outside inspection, tower requested to taxi a bit closer to the runway edge. The crew shut down the engines and performed an outside check finding both tyres deflated. The passengers disembarked and were bussed to the terminal, maintenance subsequently replaced wheel #1 and inflated tyre #2 before the aircraft was towed to the apron.
The airline forwarded the examination report by the wheel manufacturer (erroneously identifying CS-DVL as occurrence aircraft) reporting that 3 of 10 bolts of wheel #1 were found failed. The report discussed: "All ten bolts were examined and 8 were found ‘stamped’ FIT (Fastener Innovation Technology of Gardena California), one (Bolt 9) was marked PBF and one (Bolt 5) had a not recognized identification, all were marked MS21250. 6 bolts were found to have signs of pitting in the shank under the cadmium plating (Figure 8)."
The manufacturer report concluded: "The fracture surfaces of all 3 bolts show a cup and cone morphology (see Figures 4, 5 and 6). This is typical of tensile overload fracture. The dimensional and hardness results are presented in Tables 1, 2 and 3. All bolts tested had hardness values below specification requirement."
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Nov 3, 2014
Classification
Incident
Airline
Lease Fly
Flight number
CE-72
Departure
Lyon, France
Destination
Limoges, France
Aircraft Registration
CS-DTO
Aircraft Type
ATR ATR-42
ICAO Type Designator
AT42
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