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Old 6th Dec 2014, 15:19
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silverstrata
 
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Phiggs:

Looking at the second photo, it appears that the steering was central, but the nose wheel ploughed the grass to the right,

Look again.

The spaced tyre tracks indicate that the nose-wheel was steering to the right as it exited the runway. The nose-wheel was then centered, once the aircraft was stopped.

It therefore looks like a nose-wheel steering failure.
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