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Old 3rd May 2010, 09:27
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Old Man Rotor
 
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Chaps.

Why are you concentrating on LTE (or your own terminology of the same)??

It would be very helpful to know what the aircraft was doing moments before the end result.

If they were undertaking multiple One Engine Inoperative circuits and landings, that right hand side wheel accepts a significant amount of impact energy followed by the left.

I have seen the two wheel halves retaining bolts “stretched” and then the inner tube was squeezed and the tube deflated whilst the aircraft was undertaking multiple high speed (read energy) arrivals.
The approach was normal until the run on landing (with a flat tire) of the last circuit.

Fortunately in our case the undercarriage withstood the impact and subsequent drag on the runway.

It could have easily overstressed the undercarriage structure and then our picture would be similar to the above.

But you are correct, the CG won’t publish the findings for many months.
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