Peruvian Airlines Flight 112

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Peruvian Airlines Flight 112
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The aircraft involved seen here on 17 June 1996 while still operating for Trans European Airways
Accident
Date28 March 2017 (2017-03-28)
Summary Landing gear collapse after a hard landing caused by mechanical failure
Site Francisco Carle Airport, Jauja, Peru
Aircraft
Aircraft type Boeing 737-3M8
Operator Peruvian Airlines
IATA flight No.P9112
ICAO flight No.PVN112
Call signPERUVIAN 112
Registration OB-2036-P
Flight origin Jorge Chávez International Airport, Lima, Peru
Destination Francisco Carle Airport, Jauja, Peru
Occupants150
Passengers141
Crew9
Fatalities0
Injuries39
Survivors150

Peruvian Airlines Flight 112 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Lima to Jauja in Peru. On 28 March 2017, the aircraft operating the flight suffered undercarriage collapse after landing, caught fire, and was burnt out. While no fatalities occurred in this accident, 39 of the 150 people on board were injured.

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Accident

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The aircraft landed at Jauja at 16:40 local time (21:40 UTC). Passengers reported "two strong impacts" on landing. All three landing gear legs collapsed and the aircraft slid along the runway and departed the runway to the right, and the starboard wing hit the airport's perimeter fence. [1] [2] A fire broke out and destroyed the aircraft. All 141 passengers and nine crew on board escaped, [1] [3] of whom 39 people were injured and taken to hospital. Two people sustained broken bones, [4] and three people sustained concussions. [2] The accident was captured by several passengers on board. [5]

Aircraft

The accident aircraft was a Boeing 737-3M8, [note 1] msn 25071, registration OB-2036-P. [6]

Investigations

The Commission for the Investigation of Aviation Accidents, [1] and the Criminal Prosecutor's Office in Jauja both opened investigations into the accident. [3]

The Commission for the Investigation of Aviation Accidents (CIAA) released its final report in November 2020 and determined that the cause of the accident was a mechanical failure of mechanical components of the shimmy damper systems on both main landing gear struts which, because were being higher of is normal limits of tolerance, were not able to correctly dampen the vibrations and lateral oscillations of the wheels causing "shimmy" events. The sequence of shimmy events in both main gear struts led to the fracture and collapse of both main gear struts. [6]

The Commission for the Investigation of Aviation Accidents also found other contributing factors that were the following:

Notes

  1. ↑ The aircraft was a Boeing 737-300 model; Boeing assigns a unique code for each company that buys one of its aircraft, which is applied as a suffix to the model number at the time the aircraft is built, hence "737-3M8".

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Hradecky, Simon (28 March 2017). "Accident: Peruvian B733 at Jauja on Mar 28th 2017, hard landing, runway excursion, all gear collapsed, aircraft caught fire". The Aviation Herald. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  2. 1 2 "COMUNICADO A LA OPINIÓN PÚBLICA AEROPUERTO DE JAUJA" [Notice to the public, Jauja Airport] (in Spanish). CORPAC. 28 March 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Piloto de Peruvian admite desequilibrio en aeronave incendiada en Jauja" [Peruvian pilot admits unbalance in aircraft burned at Jauja] (in Spanish). Portal de Turismo. 30 March 2017. Archived from the original on 28 June 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "Un avión de Peruvian Airlines se incendió en el aeropuerto de Jauja" [A Peruvian Airlines plane caught fire at Jauja airport] (in Spanish). Media Grupo RPP. 28 March 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  5. ↑ "VIDEO Inside Peruvian Airlines Flight 112 during landing accident at Francisco Carle Airport, Peru". Air Disasters.
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