Aer Lingus Regional ATR72 incident at Belfast City
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9xz7jv51yo
Front landing gear collapsed following a hard landing. Positioning flight so only crew onboard. I’ve got some flights booked on their ATR 72s next year, hope they have a spare…
Coincidentally the worst landing I’ve ever experienced was at Belfast City. On a Flybe Dash 8, we bounced and the second thump was so hard some overhead lockers opened and I ended up with the life vest from 3 rows behind at my feet.
Airport will be shut tomorrow, some flights diverted to International but unclear if they will just cancel tomorrows services or run them over there instead.
Front landing gear collapsed following a hard landing. Positioning flight so only crew onboard. I’ve got some flights booked on their ATR 72s next year, hope they have a spare…
Coincidentally the worst landing I’ve ever experienced was at Belfast City. On a Flybe Dash 8, we bounced and the second thump was so hard some overhead lockers opened and I ended up with the life vest from 3 rows behind at my feet.
Airport will be shut tomorrow, some flights diverted to International but unclear if they will just cancel tomorrows services or run them over there instead.
I remember working in the airport when the Dash 8's had a spate of landing gear failures & the whole lot were grounded. It was not a good time to be working for regional airlines!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Bombardier_Da...
SAS had three failures but that's over 15 years ago, you'd think at this stage they'd be well understood and managed
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Bombardier_Da...
SAS had three failures but that's over 15 years ago, you'd think at this stage they'd be well understood and managed
The ATR72 has a pretty decent safety record overall, and most of the fatals have been down to procedural issues rather than technical failure. That said, they do seem more vulnerable to icing than you might expect.
They are the mainstay of Air NZ's regional fleet (along with some Dash 8 Q300s on smaller routes), so I've been on them a fair bit. Crews seem happy landing them in some quite exciting conditions too. Aside from the prop drone I have always found them perfectly pleasant.
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Earthdweller said:
Wouldn't like to be explaining that if I were at the controls!colin79666 said:
Coincidentally the worst landing I’ve ever experienced was at Belfast City. On a Flybe Dash 8, we bounced and the second thump was so hard some overhead lockers opened and I ended up with the life vest from 3 rows behind at my feet.
I had a similar experience flying into Cork in the middle of a storm about 10 years ago - we bounced three times!Handily, though, there was a boy of about 10 sitting a few rows back from me who clearly thought he was on a roller-coaster and was laughing his head off the whole time as the plane swung left and right, up and down and finally bounced onto the ground - this did dissipate the tension in the cabin somewhat!
Eric Mc said:
Last accident Aer Lingus had was when they put one of their Shorts 360s into a field near East Midlands airport back in the 1980s. There were no serious injuries apart from one of the fire crew when a fire engine rolled over on a grassy slope.
Part of Donington Park race track, I thinkecsrobin said:
Austin Prefect said:
Why does an Aer Lingus/Emerald Airlines ATR72 have a UK reg?
It’s Aer Lingus UK which is a subsidiary of Aer Lingus based out of Belfast, UK. The aircraft are also leased from a UK company. Edited by ecsrobin on Wednesday 25th December 09:16
This means that UK-based airlines cannot operate flights between European cities, and European ones cannot fly domestically in the UK. This does not affect cargo flights, only passenger flights. Hence, all the major airlines operating within the UK now have UK based subsidiaries.
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