Aircraft problem likely for nose wheel accident
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A preliminary investigation into the collapse of a Chinese-made passenger plane’s front landing gear at a central China airport on Tuesday attributed it to a problem with the aircraft rather than human mistake, Zhengzhou airport authorities said yesterday.
The nose wheel of the Joyair’s MA-60 aircraft partly broke off while it was taxiing after it landed at the Xinzheng International Airport in Zhengzhou, capital of central China’s Henan Province. Its nose suddenly dropped on the runway. But all 37 passengers and seven crew members were not injured.
Previous reports said the landing gear broke shortly after the landing, which posed too much weight on the nose wheel.
The final report has yet to be released as the investigation conducted by the Civil Aviation Administration of China and the plane maker, the Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC) is still going on.
Joyair, a regional carrier based in Xi’an in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, recalled hundreds of its engineers from their Spring Festival break to check all its MA60 aircraft, and the front landing gear in particular, said Wang Chengkuan, deputy director of the AVIC Xi’an Aviation Corp.
Joyair, a joint venture between AVIC and China Eastern Airlines, has apologized for Tuesday night’s incident and paid each passenger 200 yuan (US$32) in compensation.
The MA60 is a 50-seat regional jet with double turbo-propellers which made its maiden flight in March 2000.
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