Airport reopens after plane's wheel fails
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March 8, 2013, Friday
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FLIGHTS at Dublin Airport were temporarily suspended yesterday when a BinAir cargo plane's nose wheel collapsed after touching down, the second such landing-gear failure to beset the small German charter airline.
The Dublin Airport Authority said nobody was hurt when the forward landing gear of the Fairchild Metroliner twin-turboprop aircraft failed.
The aircraft, operated by the Munich-based freight carrier BinAir, was carrying two pilots and a cargo of laboratory rats from Kent, southeast England. It thumped to a stop with its nose on the tarmac.
Five inbound flights to Dublin were diverted and dozens delayed as authorities shut the obstructed runway. Unfavorable wind conditions meant it took about a half-hour to open a backup runway.
The flights that had been redirected to Shannon Airport in western Ireland did a U-turn and landed in Dublin. The authority said flight schedules at the airport - the busiest in Ireland, averaging more than 400 flights daily - were back to normal by noon.
The landing-gear mishap was not the first for BinAir, which uses a fleet of about a dozen Metroliner turboprop aircraft.
In January 2010, a BinAir Metroliner skidded off the runway in Stuttgart, Germany, when the right-side landing gear collapsed upon landing. The pilot reported a landing gear fault warning and aborted the initial landing, but ground crew said they could see the landing gear fully deployed. German air safety investigators found it collapsed upon hitting the tarmac.
European Union and German air safety authorities placed BinAir under "intensified" scrutiny, and warned it could be placed on the EU's blacklisted airlines, but the airline retained its operating license after it undertook unspecified actions for "verified safety deficiencies."
The Dublin Airport Authority said nobody was hurt when the forward landing gear of the Fairchild Metroliner twin-turboprop aircraft failed.
The aircraft, operated by the Munich-based freight carrier BinAir, was carrying two pilots and a cargo of laboratory rats from Kent, southeast England. It thumped to a stop with its nose on the tarmac.
Five inbound flights to Dublin were diverted and dozens delayed as authorities shut the obstructed runway. Unfavorable wind conditions meant it took about a half-hour to open a backup runway.
The flights that had been redirected to Shannon Airport in western Ireland did a U-turn and landed in Dublin. The authority said flight schedules at the airport - the busiest in Ireland, averaging more than 400 flights daily - were back to normal by noon.
The landing-gear mishap was not the first for BinAir, which uses a fleet of about a dozen Metroliner turboprop aircraft.
In January 2010, a BinAir Metroliner skidded off the runway in Stuttgart, Germany, when the right-side landing gear collapsed upon landing. The pilot reported a landing gear fault warning and aborted the initial landing, but ground crew said they could see the landing gear fully deployed. German air safety investigators found it collapsed upon hitting the tarmac.
European Union and German air safety authorities placed BinAir under "intensified" scrutiny, and warned it could be placed on the EU's blacklisted airlines, but the airline retained its operating license after it undertook unspecified actions for "verified safety deficiencies."
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