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Photos: PAL Airlines Dash 8 Suffers Forced Landing In Newfoundland
A PAL Airlines de Havilland Canada DHC-8-300 aircraft has suffered a nose gear up landing in Stephenville Airport, Newfoundland, sustaining damage to the fuselage. No passengers were injured. The turboprop aircraft, performing flight 1922 to Deer Lake, was carrying 47 passengers and 4 crew. (airwaysmag.com) Altro...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Nosewheel collapse has plagued all DASH-8 aircraft. It has plagued this series of aircraft. No problem was ever actually identified in this model.
It didn't collapse, it just didn't come down. Someone over on AVHerald suggested a cold-weather problem.
http://avherald.com/h?article=4c051dc5&opt=0
http://avherald.com/h?article=4c051dc5&opt=0
That shouldn't happened to one of the most popular regional turbo-props. Thank you for adding the fact the some models had a different problem with nose wheel failed. I have a lot of data on the incidents that occured.