ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 219370
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| Date: | Tuesday 20 December 1988 |
| Time: | 10:08 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-28R-180 |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | VH-PXL |
| MSN: | 28R-30338 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Narayen, QLD -
 Australia
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| Phase: | Taxi |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Narayen, QLD |
| Wandoan, QLD | |
| Investigating agency: | BASI |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
During the taxi phase before takeoff, the nose gear collapsed and the nose settled slowly. After the aircraft was evacuated, the pilots noticed that the nose wheel had struck a slightly raised termite mound located near the centre of the flight strip. The pilots commented that no impact was felt and they were surprised that such a small protrusion (4-5 cm) would lead to a nose gear collapse. Later inspection of the broken nose gear downlock revealed that the fracture was consistent with an overload failure. This accident was not the subject of an on-site investigation.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/1988/aair/aair198803508/
https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/33031/aair198803508.pdf
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 23 October 1989 | VH-PXL | 0 | Caloundra Airport (YCDR), Caloundra, QLD | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 12-Dec-2018 11:39 | Pineapple | Added |
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