Icelandair 757 Gear collapse at BIKF
 

METAR BIKF 071530Z 13042G56KT

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Pilot monitoring: "Set her down gentlyyy gentlyyyy gent--- bast@$d"

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Video of landing shot by pax:

To be fair gear collapses on 757s are very rare, that must have been a pretty severe downdraught, I'd wager.

Looked pretty smooth in that video........are we sure it suffered a downdraft hard landing?

Second part of the video shows the landing from the collapsed side https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ILdwSl...ature=youtu.be
It looks like the gear collapses at touchdown (which appears to be relatively smooth) and the spoilers restow almost immediately, either by pilot action or failed air-ground sensor of the collapsed gear. It also appears the pilots pick the right wing up until the airplane slows down and then it drops again.
Rumors are the the collapsed gear was recently overhauled and fitted less than 3 weeks ago...

Great work by the PF .. looks like the wind is unrelated to this but that said when you are in 57 Gusty winds if there is an airline I want to be in is Icelandair .. .its breakfast for them ..

Agree, good work by the pilot.

The wind condition could favour a case like this, the groundspeed would be way less when the wing finally settles.

And Keflavik has crossing runways, and is located on flat land, so they often operate in quite strong winds. Problem comes with the air gates, and deboarding passengers when the wind picks up.

What seems weird to me is that the gear collapsed to the outboard, so opposite from the direction of retraction.

Side stay failure?

Hard to see what else might have caused it - the comment about it possibly being recently fitted may be significant.

I'd be surprised if there isn't some collateral damaged caused by the leg going in a direction it's not supposed to go.

"Late on the round-out Hoskins."

Probably !

From the first picture, looks like that the collapsed gear did not move rearward, it only moved outward, so as you rightly say, the Side Stay might have been the weakest link.

What is also peculiar from the first picture, is that because the right side of the aircraft is actually sitting on the engine, therefore something that is more forward than the gear itself, that in turn results in some weight being added to the rear, behind of the point of support. It is quite noticeable that the Nose Gear is very extended, indicating that it is not much weight is sitting on it. Still, that is a lot better than if it would be sitting on the tail.

Rwy 10, Wind form 130º, therefore half of the wind intensity is Crosswind.

As mentioned above, this is a very windy place. Went there a few times during a summer years ago. On one occasion after landing, taxing to the gate, parking brake On, even completing the after flight paperwork proved to be a bit difficult as the aircraft was constantly oscilating due to the wind.

I'm sure if they had it to do over they would have gone around. :)

Which would probably have given a much worse outcome, this happened at very low speed just before the runway turnoff.

As there are no scrape marks behind the engine did the undercarriage collapse as the aircraft was turning off at the end.

That right main gear door hanging down indicates to me that a problem occurred during the L.G. extension sequence and was not related to touchdown forces at all.

Just my opinion.

Cheers,
Grog

Looking at photos on the Net, the aircraft appears to be resting on the runway just before the 90° left turn onto Twy E-4 (runs parallel to Rwy 01/19), which could well have been its intended route to the gate.


I suspect that when the gear gave way, the engine would have impacted the runway with a pretty substantial thump, which could well have been sufficient to dislodge the gear door.