Etihad Regional ATR loses Nose wheel
 

Happened today after landing in ZRH:
ATR72 drops one of its nose wheels. No further damage.

Link to German version:

Etihad-Maschine verliert Bugrad in Kloten - News Panorama: Vermischtes - tagesanzeiger.ch

It's ok they've got 2 wheels on the front...:ok:

Similar to a Canadian event several years ago.
Aircraft (ATR?) landed with only one nose wheel; it’s absence was not noticed by the crew, etc, until the aircraft was in maintenance !!!!
Maintenance deduces that it was an operational loss, thus started checking the most recent outstations for evidence. Airport xxx responded; ‘yes, found at the edge of the airport, but which one (of two) do you want?’

Small incident.
What I find far more interesting is to see ( in another article ) that tickets for the flight Dresden-Zurich is done by Etihad Regional (from the UAE) with an aircraft painted in Etihad colors but operated on paper by Darwin ( a Swiss airline which Etihad bought 33%) but in fact the aircrfat belong to Avanti , a German company specialised in wet lease. Avanti has only 2 aircraft , the ATR in question and a FK100 which is not yet flying .
I wonder who is regulating the maintenance.

Who regulates it I don't know, but I believe that their heavy maintenance is done by RAS in Moenchengladbach.

Maintenance will be regulated by the country in which the aircraft is registered.

ATC Watcher, which aircraft was involved in this incident? The only Avanti ATR-72 I know of is German registered, D-ANFE. Darwin/Etihad Regional's four Swiss registered ATRs are, to my knowledge, leased from Nordic Aviation Capital.

Avherald are showing that as being the aircraft involved.

Yes ,you are correct, I phrased my question wrongly . My question was who, which unit in which country maintenance was performed and checked .

You see with EASA you can perform the maintenance in any workshop in any country as long as they are " EASA certified"