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Old 23rd Jul 2013, 23:29
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lomapaseo
 
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I keep hearing that the gear rotated backwards and was driven up into the electrical bay.

Is that a direction that coincides with an unlocked gear or a hard nose down on a locked gear?

I still can't figure out why the wheel itself came off? I suppose there might even be the possibility that the gear was down and locked and that the wheel was the first thing that let go allowing the strut itself to dig in, but that doesn't match my visuals of other aircraft landings where the nose wheel just swivels away in a shower of sparks but doesn't collapse.
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