ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 196318
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| Date: | Sunday 28 May 2017 |
| Time: | 14:00 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-28-181 |
| Owner/operator: | Project Support Partnership Limited |
| Registration: | N75276 |
| MSN: | 28-7690320 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1976 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Minor |
| Location: | Pointe-à-Pitre Le Raizet Airport, Grande-Terre -
 Guadeloupe
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Tortola-Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport, Beef Island (EIS/TUPJ) |
| Pointe-à-Pitre-Le Raizet Airport (PTP/TFFR) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
We were enroute from TUPJ (Tortola) to TFFR (Martinique) VFR to land for fuel before completing our journey to TBPB (Barbados) our home base - west abeam Guadeloupe we received information that Martinique was experiencing severe weather ( it had been MVFR when we set off so this was perhaps to have been expected), the airport was closed to all traffic.
We determined to divert to Guadeloupe.
Approach and landing were normal, the landing was text book, as it happened I held the nose wheel off for an unusually long time, this proved fortuitous as events unfolded.
When the nose wheel touched there was a minor vibration followed by severe vibration - about 20% of the way doen We were about 20% along the runway, I stopped the airplane and shutdown the engine.
We had a puncture - a flat nose wheel tyre.
The fire service and an instructor at the airport got the airplane off the runway.
Next day the A&P at the field removed the tyre and found inside it three small metal fragments which had abraded the tube - the tube could be inflated but over a couple of days at sea level or so the pressure leaked out - the tyre was good when we left Tortola, it is speculated that the pressure difference when climbing to over 9,000 at one point deflated the tyre. It seems that the metal fragments are heads of brake rivets, they seems to have been introduced into the tyre by sticking to the "soap" applied to the tube to facilitate fitting. The wheels all have wheel spats/fairings, shutting it down so quickly (probably one and a half to two seconds after the first vibration) probably preventable damage.
In the event there was no damage to the tyre, the wheel spat nor the nose leg. The inner tube was replaced the next morning (the Sunday was French Mothers Day so A&P on the airport) we departed for an uneventful flight to Barbados.
The tyre and tube were both brand new and put on approx 30 flight hours earlier. I have notified the A&P who has not replied to several emails.
Sources:
My personal experience.
Images:
TFFR Le Raizet 28th May 2017
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 24-Jun-2017 16:35 | Ebbie | Added |
| 24-Jun-2017 16:37 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 23-May-2022 03:19 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport] |
| 08-Jul-2023 03:39 | Ron Averes | Updated [[Location, Departure airport, Destination airport]] |
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