Accident: Cargolux B748 at Libreville on Nov 24th 2014, hard landing
Accident: Cargolux B748 at Libreville on Nov 24th 2014, hard landing
By Simon Hradecky, created Tuesday, Dec 16th 2014 20:14Z, last updated Tuesday, Dec 16th 2014 20:40Z
A Cargolux Boeing 747-800 freighter, registration LX-VCC performing freight flight CV-7101 from Luxembourg (Luxembourg) to Libreville (Gabon), landed in Libreville at about 19:30L (18:30Z) but touched down hard. The aircraft rolled out without further incident and taxied to the apron.
The aircraft continued its schedule returning from Africa to Luxembourg on Nov 26th, performed rotations from Luxembourgh to Shanghai (China) via Russia and back, flew from Luxembourg to Hong Kong (China) via the United States and back, and finally was removed from service in Luxembourg on Dec 2nd 2014 after substantial structural damage was detected as result of the hard landing in Libreville.
The damage is going to be assessed by a Boeing maintenance team to decide whether the aircraft can be repaired, preliminary estimation suggests the aircraft will be repaired.
Libreville features a runway 16/34 of 3000 meters/9850 feet length.
Any ideas on the location of the damage, would like to know if it could only be found by a detailed inspection such as removing panels, extending flaps etcetera, I gather it was not reported by the tech crew and was checked as a result of downloading the QAR.