Boeing 737-400 crash, Apr 29, 2014, East Midlands
Boeing 737-400 accident on April 29, 2014 near East Midlands, Leicestershire, United Kingdom with no fatalities. Cause: AAIB: The left main landing...
- Date: April 29, 2014
- Aircraft: Boeing 737-400
- Location: East Midlands, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: AAIB: The left main landing gear inner cylinder failed through stress corrosion cracking and fatigue in the high strength steel substrate, following a localised area of heat damage to the chrome plating that changed the steel metallurgy and created a corrosion pit. The source of the heat could not be determined.
A Boeing 737 cargo flight operated by Air Contractors of Ireland landed at East Midlands with its flap load relief system inoperative. During rollout, after the autobrake was disengaged at about 60 kt, the left main landing gear inner cylinder failed and the aircraft settled onto the runway, coming to rest off the centreline. The two crew were uninjured and the engines were shut down before the crew were assisted from the aircraft. The AAIB found that stress corrosion cracking and fatigue caused the failure, following localised heat damage to the chrome plating whose source could not be determined.