Narrative:A Dornier 328-110, operating a charter flight between Ingolstadt Airport and Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport, Germany, sustained substantial damage in a landing accident.
After an uneventful flight the crew began an ILS approach to runway 26 of the Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport. The first officer was the pilot flying (PF). The autopilot was switched off while the aircraft descended through an altitude of 500 feet. The airplane landed hard with a recorded vertical acceleration of +2.3 g. When taxiing to the platform, the crew noted that the airplane had an inclination to the left. After parking it appeared that the left hand main gear was damaged. Additionally , there was a 1,5 m scrape mark on the underside of the rear fuselage.
Classification:
Heavy landing
Runway mishap
Sources:
» BFU 1X003-14
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Distance from Ingolstadt/Manching Airport to Braunschweig-Wolfsburg Airport as the crow flies is 404 km (252 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.