ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 184062
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| Date: | Saturday 30 January 2016 |
| Time: | c. 12:45 UTC |
| Type: |  Boeing 747-436 |
| Owner/operator: | British Airways |
| Registration: | G-CIVX |
| MSN: | 28852/1172 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1998 |
| Engine model: | x Rolls-Royce RB211-524G2 turbine |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 310 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Incident |
| Location: | Central England -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL) |
| Chicago, United States (ORD/KORD) | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Flight BA295, operated by Boeing 747-436 G-CIVX, returned to land at Heathrow with a landing gear problem. After a problem with the landing gear lever the two wing-mounted legs of the landing gear failed to deploy, leaving just the other three operational.
This was the aircraft’s first flight after maintenance, during which the Landing Gear Control Module (LGCM) was replaced. After retracting the landing gear following takeoff from Heathrow, the crew were unable to move the landing gear lever from the up to the off position, as it had become jammed in the up detent. The crew elected to return to Heathrow and, in accordance with 747 Flight Crew Operations Manual Non-Normal Checklist procedures, the landing gear was lowered using the alternate extension system. The aircraft landed safely, with only the nose and body landing gear deployed.
The jammed landing gear lever was attributed to a rig pin not being inserted in the landing gear system during maintenance, which led to additional and unnecessary shims being used to rig the landing gear lever.
The following causal factors were identified by the operator’s maintenance investigation:
i. The distraction of the engineer when he saw the quadrant move and he took his break;
ii. Deficiencies in the operator’s task card system;
iii. The omission of the need to fit the rig pin in the operator’s TR for this task;
iv. An inadequate handover between the night shift and the day shift.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
International Business Times article on the Yahoo! portal.
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:https://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-hero-pilot-safely-lands-213121972.html]
https://www.flightradar24.com//data/flights/ba295/
http://thebasource.com/british-airways-b747-400-g-civx-ba295-heathrow-technical-return/
Media:
NEWS British Airways #BA295 from Chicago makes emergency landing at Heathrow as two of its five sets of wheels bro… https://t.co/to4t6ZfqQf
— AirLive.net (@airlivenet) January 31, 2016British Airways flight #BA295 returned to Heathrow with a landing gear issue https://t.co/8vltI9OyH6 pic.twitter.com/w8KKEU1JUs
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) January 30, 2016Apparently this is the problem. Should there be more wheels? #BA295 pic.twitter.com/yhmyiSBHkz
— Martin Robinson (@MartinJRobinson) January 30, 2016Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 31-Jan-2016 11:17 | Cushman | Added |
| 31-Jan-2016 14:29 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 31-Jan-2016 15:40 | RobertMB | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn] |
| 31-Jan-2016 15:47 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Total occupants, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 31-Jan-2016 17:08 | Anon. | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Embed code] |
| 31-Jan-2016 18:42 | AF5541 | Updated [Destination airport] |
| 23-Sep-2016 09:09 | Aerossurance | Updated [Narrative] |
| 13-Oct-2016 09:39 | harro | Updated [Total occupants, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 01-Nov-2016 10:43 | Jhieminga | Updated [Narrative] |
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