PIA B773 at New York on Sep 8th 2015, gear did not retract
Last Update: September 10, 2015 / 12:39:09 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Sep 8, 2015
Classification
Incident
Flight number
PK-722
Departure
New York JFK, United States
Destination
Lahore, Pakistan
Aircraft Registration
AP-BID
Aircraft Type
Boeing 777-300
ICAO Type Designator
B773
The occurrence aircraft was able to depart after about 3:20 hours on the ground and is estimated to reach Lahore with a delay of 4:40 hours.
On Sep 10th 2015 The Aviation Herald learned that a maintenance engineer had installed a nose gear pin, maintenance was continued by the next shift who did not remove the gear pin. The gear pin did not carry the red tags and thus were invisible during the walk around by ground personnel and the flight crew.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Sep 8, 2015
Classification
Incident
Flight number
PK-722
Departure
New York JFK, United States
Destination
Lahore, Pakistan
Aircraft Registration
AP-BID
Aircraft Type
Boeing 777-300
ICAO Type Designator
B773
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