Image: NTSB
Video excerpts showing the rollout during the Scottsdale runway excursion.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), citing the fatal runway excursion of a Bombardier Learjet, has issued an urgent safety recommendation requiring operators of 10 Learjet models to act to ensure that the airplanes’ main landing gear are correctly attached.
The urgent recommendation, addressed to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), would apply to 1,883 airplanes that are currently in service. The operators would be required to comply with manufacturer service bulletins on landing gear maintenance.
A second recommendation to the FAA called on the agency to require Bombardier to “revise procedures to include a post-maintenance visual check of the position of the aft landing gear trunnion pin and retaining bolt.”
The recommendation said that without the required verification, maintenance personnel could “i…
