ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 326709
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| Date: | Saturday 22 August 1987 |
| Time: | 13:12 |
| Type: |  Boeing 767-231ER |
| Owner/operator: | Trans World Airlines - TWA |
| Registration: | N609TW |
| MSN: | 22572/65 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1983 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 12336 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7R4D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 181 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Belleville-Scott AFB, IL (BLV) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | San Francisco International Airport, CA (SFO/KSFO) |
| Saint Louis-Lambert International Airport, MO (STL/KSTL) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
While Boeing 767 N609TW was parked overnight at the gate at San Francisco (SFO), mechanics found an unserviceable brake and tire, requested a work order, and some time between 03:00 and 05:00 they removed and replaced the No.3 brake and wheel assembly on the right main landing gear. Both mechanics were long time employees of TWA but neither had ever changed the wheel/brake assembly on a Boeing 767. During the installation of the wheel/brake assemblies, the mechanics installed the pin through the end of the brake rod, but only partially into the brake torque arm. The bolt used to secure the pin in the torque arm and prevent it from migrating outward probably was not inserted through the hole in the pin.
TWA Flight 756 departed at 10:47. When the landing gear was retracted after takeoff, the No. 3 brake rod connector pin would have been head end downward. During the en route phase of the flight, the pin dropped out of the brake torque housing allowing the brake rod to move horizontally until coming to rest on the landing gear door pad, preventing the landing gear from extending before landing .
On the approach to runway 30L at Saint Louis-Lambert Airport (STL) and just before reaching the outer marker, the landing ear handle was lowered. Afterward, EICAS displayed "Gear Disagree, Gear Doors," and an aural gear unsafe warning sounded . The captain broke off the approach, departed the traffic pattern, and recycled the landing gear in accordance with the "Gear Disagree " procedure. However, the right main landing gear continued to show an unsafe condition. Alternate gear extension procedures were also without success. The captain of flight 756 then decided to land at Scott Air Force Base because of a more favorable runway wind component and because of the availability of on-base medical facilities and heavy crash/fire/rescue (CFR) equipment.
The aircraft landed with the right main landing gear fully retracted . The airplane came to rest in a nose-high, right-wing-low attitude with the right engine supporting the weight of the right wing.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The improper installation of the No.3 right main landing gear wheel/brake assembly and the inadequate inspection of the maintenance."
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photo (c) NTSB; Belleville-Scott AFB, IL (BLV/KBLV); 22 August 1987; (publicdomain)
photo (c) NTSB; Belleville-Scott AFB, IL (BLV/KBLV); 22 August 1987; (publicdomain)
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