AAIB details ATR-42 landing gear collapse accident

A fatigue failure caused the left hand main landing gear on an ATR-42 to collapse on landing at Jersey Airport, U.K., an AAIB investigation revealed.
A fatigue failure caused the left hand main landing gear on an ATR-42 to collapse on landing at Jersey Airport, U.K., an AAIB investigation revealed.
The Italian ANSV, while investigating an ATR-72 engine failure incident, met with other accident investigators dealing with similar PW127 engine problems.
On November 15, an ATR-42 passenger plane inadvertently took off from a taxiway at Wroclaw, Poland according to a report by Polish news channel TVN24. Eurolot Flight 012 took off from a closed taxiway at Wroclaw-Strachowice Airport (WRO/EPWR), Poland. Visibility was poor (400 m) due to fog at the time of the incident. Wroclaw has a single […]
The crash of an ATR-42 cargo airplane while on approach to landing at Lubbock, Texas, was caused by the flight crew’s failure to maintain a safe airspeed, which put the plane into an aerodynamic stall at an altitude too low from which to recover, the NTSB determined. Poor crew resource management, flawed decision-making and human […]
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is proposing a civil penalty of $700,000 against Executive Airlines. The San Juan, Puerto Rico airline, which does business as American Eagle Airlines, allegedly operated eight of its ATR-42 twin-turboprop airliners when they were not in compliance with Federal Aviation Regulations. The FAA alleges that when Executive Airlines did […]