AT75, Palma de Mallorca Spain, 2021

AT75, Palma de Mallorca Spain, 2021

Summary

On 19 February 2021, an ATR72-500 was found after a night arrival in Madrid to be missing the tread from one of its main gear tyres without the crew being aware. A search for debris on the landing runway and taxi-in route found none and the following morning, remains of the tread were seen by an aircraft departing the same runway at Palma de Mallorca. It was suspected from close inspection of the recovered debris that the tyre damage may have been initiated by undetected runway debris. The limitations of routine runway inspections even during daylight were noted.

Description

On 19 February 2021, an ATR72-500 (EC-LYJ) being operated by Swiftair completed an apparently uneventful scheduled domestic cargo flight from Palma de Mallorca to Madrid but a post flight maintenance inspection found that the inner left main landing gear wheel tyre tread was missing. The Madrid airport authority were advised and an inspection of the landing runway used and taxi route in was carried out but nothing was found. The following morning, only after a flight which departed from the same runway at Palma as the Swiftair aircraft had done reported having seen tyre debris on the runway was the missing tyre tread subsequently found.

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