DHC-6 nose wheel
I am a pilot of DHC-6 of First Flying, located in Japan and that is Japanese commuter company.
This summer we bought two brand new DHC6-400 but soon after we started services, one of them has crashed.
After landed, aircraft suddenly veered to right and hit the fence.
our flight service is still suspended since accident happened and we are under investigation what is the cause of accident.
Now our situation is that we do not have any idea what is the cause of accident and what is the recovery action once
airplane suddenly veered to left or right.
By now, what we figured out was nose wheel was not centered on touch down but veered to right to some degrees even though nose wheel steering lever was in a center position.
All of our pilot does not have experience flying with DHC-6 much and most of the destination airport are about 800m short runway.
Viking(maker) does not give us certain information relating to nose wheel trouble, nor give us
any technique how to make recovery action once aircraft veered to left or right.
Considering those, we ourselves have to figure out and look for the way to recover from our accident.
If anyone know about these it would be great help for us even it is tiny things.
Your support would be great helpful for us.
thank you,
-Takataka
First Flying, pilot