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| Date: | Sunday 2 June 2002 |
| Time: | 21:00 LT |
| Type: |  Canadair CRJ-200ER |
| Owner/operator: | Atlantic Southeast Airlines - ASA |
| Registration: | N849AS |
| MSN: | 7347 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1999 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 6831 hours |
| Engine model: | General Electric CF 34 3B1 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 53 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, GA (ATL/KATL) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, MD (BWI/KBWI) |
| Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, GA (ATL/KATL) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A Bombardier CL6002B-19, N849AS, operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines, Inc., as flight 4509, experienced a left main landing gear failure during landing on runway 26R, at the Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport, in Atlanta, Georgia. According to the flight crew, and confirmed by the FDR, the approach to landing was uneventful. Upon landing the pilot deployed the thrust reversers and the left main landing gear collapsed. Fracture of the main fitting for the left main landing gear was caused by a fatigue crack that emanated from multiple origins at the external surface of the wall at the shock strut radius run out area. No evidence of material anomalies, such as corrosion or gouge damage, was found at the fatigue origin area. Because the stresses leading to the fatigue crack of the main fitting have not clearly been identified, the root cause of the fatigue cracking has not been determined. During the investigation, Atlantic Southeast Airlines did a Fleet Wide inspection of all their Bombardier Inc., Model CL600-2B19 aircraft landing gear assemblies, which included visual and eddy current inspections. Their inspections found no additional cracked landing gear. Additionally, Transport Canada issued a revised AD, which eliminated the escalation of the eddy current inspection intervals as allowed in their previous AD. Also, the FAA issued an NPRM in response to Transport Canada AD, which requires repetitive detailed visual and eddy current inspection of the main landing gear main fitting. The NPRM if adopted would produce another AD that is applicable to certain Bombardier Model CL600-2B19 (Regional Jet Series 100
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ATL02FA113
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 14-Oct-2022 15:45 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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