Individually Owned: 150,657
Corporate Owned: 137,281
Washington Dulles Intl. Airport
Aircraft Accident/Incident Report
Washington, District Of Columbia 20166
Sunday, December 12, 2010 14:00 EST
NTSB Narrative Summary Released at Completion of Accident
On December 12, 2010 at approximately 1756Z, Air France flight 028, a Boeing 777-200 registered as F-GSPI landed hard on runway 19C at Dulles International airport (IAD). After a normal touch down on the main landing gear by the first officer and after scanning inside the cockpit to ensure automatic extension of spoilers, the captain determined that the pitch attitude of the airplane was too high and took control of the airplane. The captain pushed the nose down firmly, activated the thrust reversers and applied the brakes, the nose wheel bounced hard several times without dampening. The airplane was stopped on the runway to check the landing gear and nose wheel steering. The airplane exited the runway and stopped again on taxiway Y3 for another visual inspection. After a check of the landing gear by the flight crew and firemen the airplane taxied to the gate. At the gate it was discovered that the nose landing gear was damaged during the landing. The nose landing gear was leaking oil and nose landing gear strut was compressed beyond the nominal limits. Upon further examination of the nose landing gear it was determined that one of the nose landing gear strut seals failed resulting in loss of fluid and pressure from the nose landing gear strut. There was no other damage to the airplane and there were no injuries to the flight crew and passengers.
NTSB Probable Cause Narrative
Not Yet Reported
Event Information
| Type of Event | Incident |
| Event Date | 12/12/2010 |
| Event Day of the Week | Sunday |
| Time of Event | 1400 |
| Event Time Zone | Eastern Standard Time |
| Event City | Washington |
| Event State | DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA |
| Event Country | -- |
| Zipcode of the event site | 20166 |
| Event Date Year | 2010 |
| Event Date Month | 12 |
| MidAir Collision Indicator | No |
| On Ground Collision occurred ? | No |
| Event Location Latitude | 385651N |
| Event Location Longitude | 0772736W |
| Event Location Airport | Washington Dulles Intl. |
| Event Location Nearest Airport ID | iad |
| Indicates whether the acc/inc occurred off or on an airport | On Airport |
| Distance from airport in statute miles | -- |
| Degrees magnetic from airport | -- |
| Airport Elevation | -- |
| Weather Briefing Completeness | -- |
| Investigator's weather source | Unknown |
| Time of the weather observation | |
| Direction of event from weather observation facility (degrees) | -- |
| Weather Observation Facility ID | -- |
| Elevation of weather observation facility | -- |
| Distance of event from weather observation facility (units?) | -- |
| Time Zone of the weather observation | -- |
| Lighting Conditions | -- |
| Lowest Ceiling Height | -- |
| Lowest Non-Ceiling Height | -- |
| Sky/Lowest/Cloud Conditions | -- |
| Sky Condition for Lowest Ceiling | -- |
| Visibility Runway Visual Range (Feet) | -- |
| Visibility Runway Visual Value (Statute Miles) | -- |
| Visibility (Statute Miles) | -- |
| Air Temperature at event time (in degrees celsius) | -- |
| Dew Point at event time (in degress fahrenheit) | -- |
| Wind Direction (degrees magnetic) | -- |
| Variable Wind Indicator | -- |
| Wind Speed (knots) | -- |
| Wind Velocity Indicator | -- |
| Wind Gust Indicator | -- |
| Wind Gust (knots) | -- |
| Altimeter Setting at event time (in. Hg) | -- |
| Density Altitude (feet) | -- |
| Intensity of Precipitation | -- |
| METAR weather report | -- |
| Event Highest Injury | -- |
| On Ground, Fatal Injuries | 0 |
| On Ground, Minor Injuries | 0 |
| On Ground, Serious Injuries | 0 |
| Injury Total Fatal | -- |
| Injury Total Minor | -- |
| Injury Total None | -- |
| Injury Total Serious | -- |
| Injury Total All | -- |
| Investigating Agency | NTSB |
| NTSB Docket Number (internal use) | -- |
| NTSB Notification Source | Federal Aviation Administratio |
| NTSB Notification Date | -- |
| NTSB Notification Time | -- |
| Fiche Number and/or location -used to find docket information | -- |
| Date of most recent change to record | Apr 4 2011 2:01PM |
| User who most recently changed record | grol |
| Basic weather conditions | -- |
| FAA District Office | -- |
Aircraft Involved |
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|---|---|
Aircraft #1 |
|
| Aircraft Registration Number | F-GSPI |
| NTSB Number | ENG11FA008 |
| Missing Aircraft Indicator | -- |
| Federal Aviation Reg. Part | Part 129: Foreign |
| Type of Flight Plan filed | Unknown |
| Flight plan Was Activated? | -- |
| Damage | Minor |
| Aircraft Fire | None |
| Aircraft Explosion | None |
| Aircraft Manufacturer's Full Name | BOEING |
| Aircraft Model | 777 |
| Aircraft Series Identifier | 228 |
| Aircraft Serial Number | 29008 |
| Certified Max Gross Weight | -- |
| Aircraft Category | Airplane |
| Aircraft Registration Class | -- |
| Aircraft is a homebuilt? | No |
| Flight Crew Seats | -- |
| Cabin Crew Seats | -- |
| Passenger Seats | -- |
| Total number of seats on the aircraft | -- |
| Number of Engines | 2 |
| Fixed gear or retractable gear | Fixed |
| Aircraft, Type of Last Inspection | Unknown |
| Date of Last Inspection | Jul 21 2010 12:00AM |
| Airframe hours since last inspection | 754 |
| Airframe Hours | -- |
| ELT Installed | Unknown |
| ELT Activated | Unknown |
| ELT Aided Location of Event Site | Unknown |
| ELT Type | -- |
| Aircraft Owner Name | AIr France |
| Aircraft Owner Street Address | 45, rue de Paris - 95 747 Roissy CDG Cedex |
| Aircraft Owner City | Roissy CDG Cedex |
| Aircraft Owner State | -- |
| Aircraft Owner Country | FR |
| Aircraft Owner Zipcode | 95 747 |
| Operator is an individual? | No |
| Operator Name | AIr France |
| Operator Same as Owner? | Yes |
| Operator Is Doing Business As | -- |
| Operator Address Same as Owner? | Yes |
| Operator Street Address | 45, rue de Paris - 95 747 Roissy CDG Cedex |
| Operator City | Roissy CDG Cedex |
| Operator State | -- |
| Operator Country | FR |
| Operator Zip code | 95 747 |
| Operator Code | -- |
| Owner has at least one certificate | Yes - certificate holder |
| Other Operator of large aircraft? | No |
| Certified for Part 133 or 137 Operation | -- |
| Operator Certificate Number | -- |
| Indicates whether an air carrier operation was scheduled or not | Scheduled |
| Indicates Domestic or International Flight | International |
| Operator carrying Pax/Cargo/Mail | Passenger Only |
| Type of Flying (Per_Bus / Primary) | -- |
| Second Pilot on Board | Yes |
| Departure Point Same as Event | No |
| Departure Airport Code | CDG |
| Departure City | Paris |
| Departure State | -- |
| Departure Country | FR |
| Departure Time | -- |
| Departure Time Zone | -- |
| Destination Same as Local Flt | crash at destination city |
| Destination Airport Code | iad |
| Destination City | Washington |
| Destination State | DC |
| Destination Country | USA |
| Specific Phase of Flight | -- |
| Report sent to ICAO? | -- |
| Evacuation occurred | -- |
| Date of most recent change to record | Mar 30 2011 9:20AM |
| User who most recently changed record | broda |
| Since inspection or accident | Time of Accident |
| Event Location Runway Number and Location | 19C |
| Runway Length | -- |
| Runway Width | -- |
| Sight Seeing flight | No |
| Air Medical Flight | No |
| Medical Flight | -- |