Preliminary report.

That report still doesn't answer any questions. It was reported by the crew that the left MLG "collapsed" on rollout ["During the landing roll out the left main gear collapsed..."] but in Fig. 2 the inspectors are looking at a MLG that only appears somewhat off full down but still supporting the wing. So what actually happened ?

Note also that the FO is the only crew member quoted.

Never been around one, but I think that is the right main, not the left, the image is labeled wrong. The drip stick appears to be forward (right) in the image, like at about 9 seconds in this video

mtntech,

I think you may be right. I took the caption in fig. 2 at face value and (obviously) didn't look at it enough. There's been a good bit of damage so it's hard to tell from the gear leg itself.

that is the left main Gear, and the bogie is pointing 90 degrees from where it should... (flaps behind the gear, light, inboard joint cap... it's the left bit, but folded like a P-40 in the retract, or mixmaster... or 210...) gonna be some interesting materials testing around the scissor link and the lateral brace to see what went first. KMIA will get a new ILS GS antenna out of it for 26.

Sad to see another set of Long Beach's finest cables get tossed onto the dump. With V-2500s it wasn't a bad plane.


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