Click Fokker 100 landed without Main Gear

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AV Herald reports:

Accident: Click Mexicana F100 at Monterrey on Feb 11th 2010, landed without main gear

By Simon Hradecky, created Friday, Feb 12th 2010 12:32Z, last updated Friday, Feb 12th 2010 12:36Z
A Click Mexicana Fokker 100, registration XA-SHJ performing flight QA-7222 from Mexico City to Nuevo Laredo (Mexico) with 92 passengers and 4 crew, was on approach to Nuevo Laredo, when the crew received an unsafe gear indication, entered a holding to trouble shoot the problem and after being unable to resolve the problem performed a low approach to have the landing gear inspected which revealed, that both main gear had not extended. The crew decided to divert to Monterrey (Mexico) due to the available longer runways and better airport facilities and burned off fuel. After touch down on runway 29 at 20:42L (02:42Z Feb 12th) in night conditions the airplane skidded off the runway and came to a stop on soft ground turned around by nearly 180 degrees. No injuries occured, one passenger needed to be treated for shock, the aircraft received substantial damage.

The airport remained closed following the accident until the following morning.

Nuevo Laredo's runway 14/32 is 2000 meters/6500 feet long, Monterrey's runway 11/29 3000 meters/9850 feet long.

Metars Monterrey:
MMMY 120440Z 33020KT 15SM SKC 13/08 A2995
MMMY 120345Z 33020KT 15SM SKC 13/08 A2993
MMMY 120249Z 33024KT 10SM SKC 13/08 A2991 RMK SLP142 52027 991
MMMY 120146Z 33010KT 8SM SCT030 SCT070 12/09 A2989 RMK 60016 8/470
MMMY 120052Z 32008KT 8SM -RA BKN030CB BKN070 BKN200 12/10 A2986 RMK 8/363 -RA OCNL
MMMY 120020Z 34014KT 8SM -RA BKN030CB BKN070 OVC200 12/10 A2987 RMK 8/363 -RAB15 PRESRR


Again a Fokker 100..... i think it's number 5 or so...

Ever since they built this thing they had some issues with the main gear...

[ab33t]

This is almost like the SAS Dash 8's

[ray cosmic]

Seems like a job well done by the crew! :ok:

[stilton]

Yes, good job by the crew.


These Fokkers do seem to have a lot of gear problems :eek:

[matkat]

The F100 gear issue is already subject to EASA AD action under AD 2009-0267, 2009-0268 and AD 2009-0221 so we can only hope that 1) the compliance dates are brought forward and 2) it stops this problem.

[fokkerjet]

2 of the failures, were due to issues not related to gear design problems. As I recall, one was from FOD left in the hydraulic system, and the other was caused by the airplane striking a "pothole". No causes stated for the rest, yet.

[Squawk7777]

You have to put it all in perspective. Those F100s have logged many hours and cycles within the Mexicana group. As far as I know this is the first gear up incident with Mexicana and Click. Uncommanded engine shutdown used to be a problem about 10 years ago but that issue got resolved (at least I was told, whatever it means :uhoh: ) .

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[Farrell]

Aircraft main gear did not deploy and machine landed without any major upsets.

ADs, previous history and Scooby Doo detective-work aside - that is all any of you know that this stage.

Let's not go six months back to the dark days when incidents were "solved" within six posts eh?
You've been doing so well up until now. :)

[contractor25]

gears were originally made by Dowty. If it wasn't for the (in)famous gear collapses Fokker would have had to built a F70 prototype from scratch....PH-MKC is to my knowledge the only aircraft on the Dutch register with two different types assigned to it, F28-0100 and F28-0070