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Maintenance Mishap - Concorde147 - 28-09-2018
Last night I was 5nm away from the landing zone after a 4 hour/4000NM flight in Concorde and when I tried to lower the landing gear the co-pilot said it had become stuck and repeated attempts to automatically and manually lower it didn't work. Knowing any attempt at a belly landing would result in a crash I had to resign myself to a failied flight and abort it.
At first I thought it was caused by a random failure even though I was pretty sure that was disabled. I just checked my company details and indeed Fixed Failure Percentage and Fixed Failure Level are both set to NO but I then noticed my aircraft had severe landing gear damage which had been caused by a heavy landing on the previous flight. I didn't carry out repairs so it looks like that is what caused it to fail when trying to lower it. Lesson Learnt and from now on I will be checking for landing gear damage on the flight report and also checking maintenance status as part of the pre flight checks to make double sure this doesn't happen again!
RE: Maintenance Mishap - hogjaw - 28-09-2018
But it still hurts the thing called pride doesn't it.