Etihad Regional ATR loses Nose wheel
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Etihad Regional ATR loses Nose wheel
Happened today after landing in ZRH:
ATR72 drops one of its nose wheels. No further damage.
Link to German version:
Etihad-Maschine verliert Bugrad in Kloten - News Panorama: Vermischtes - tagesanzeiger.ch
ATR72 drops one of its nose wheels. No further damage.
Link to German version:
Etihad-Maschine verliert Bugrad in Kloten - News Panorama: Vermischtes - tagesanzeiger.ch
Similar to a Canadian event several years ago.
Aircraft (ATR?) landed with only one nose wheel; it’s absence was not noticed by the crew, etc, until the aircraft was in maintenance !!!!
Maintenance deduces that it was an operational loss, thus started checking the most recent outstations for evidence. Airport xxx responded; ‘yes, found at the edge of the airport, but which one (of two) do you want?’
Aircraft (ATR?) landed with only one nose wheel; it’s absence was not noticed by the crew, etc, until the aircraft was in maintenance !!!!
Maintenance deduces that it was an operational loss, thus started checking the most recent outstations for evidence. Airport xxx responded; ‘yes, found at the edge of the airport, but which one (of two) do you want?’
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Small incident.
What I find far more interesting is to see ( in another article ) that tickets for the flight Dresden-Zurich is done by Etihad Regional (from the UAE) with an aircraft painted in Etihad colors but operated on paper by Darwin ( a Swiss airline which Etihad bought 33%) but in fact the aircrfat belong to Avanti , a German company specialised in wet lease. Avanti has only 2 aircraft , the ATR in question and a FK100 which is not yet flying .
I wonder who is regulating the maintenance.
What I find far more interesting is to see ( in another article ) that tickets for the flight Dresden-Zurich is done by Etihad Regional (from the UAE) with an aircraft painted in Etihad colors but operated on paper by Darwin ( a Swiss airline which Etihad bought 33%) but in fact the aircrfat belong to Avanti , a German company specialised in wet lease. Avanti has only 2 aircraft , the ATR in question and a FK100 which is not yet flying .
I wonder who is regulating the maintenance.
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ATC Watcher, which aircraft was involved in this incident? The only Avanti ATR-72 I know of is German registered, D-ANFE. Darwin/Etihad Regional's four Swiss registered ATRs are, to my knowledge, leased from Nordic Aviation Capital.
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Maintenance will be regulated by the country in which the aircraft is registered
You see with EASA you can perform the maintenance in any workshop in any country as long as they are " EASA certified"
