Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners,rec.travel.air Path: news From: cid@athena.mit.edu (Derek H Cedillo) Subject: A320 loses wheels and skids 200 feet X-Submission-Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 03:58:24 GMT References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM X-Submission-Message-Id: <1992Nov30.035824.22954@athena.mit.edu> Date: 01 Dec 92 00:13:24 PST A Mexicana A320 Lost its nose gear on takeoff at LAX (flt #901 @3:25PM) The aircraft was fairly new, what I was wondering, was what it takes exactly to lose a gear, especially on take off. Landing, you have a lot more stress and what not. My main concern is that with it being a relatively new aircraft, long term stress and maintainence problems shouldnt be much of a factor, thus implying either a tragic design flaw or machining flaw/one time error. I realize that ther rest of the A320's problems dont stem from things like this but mainly from control problems. Does anyone have specific info on what it would/did take to have this gear fail? Thanks Derek ------------------------------------------------------------------- "He lived a life of going-to-do, and died with nothing done" -J. Albery In other words---JUST DO IT!