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Old 1st Nov 2007, 13:26
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It looks to me as though there was a design fault with the actuators allowing corrosion to occur, causing a main gear failure. This seems to be what happened with the first 2 identical accidents (and grounded a few Flybe aircraft too from what I hear).

Then in haste to change all the actuators, a maintenance error has crept in somewhere and allowed an O-ring to be mis-fitted meaning total non-deployment of RH main landing gear in the 3rd accident.

Of course this is pure speculation on my behalf.
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