E550, Paris Le Bourget France, 2017

E550, Paris Le Bourget France, 2017

Summary

On 27 November 2017, an Embraer EMB 550 crew ignored a pre-takeoff indication of an inoperative airframe ice protection system despite taxiing out and taking off in icing conditions. The flight proceeded normally until approach to Paris Le Bourget when the Captain was unable to flare for touchdown at the normal speed and a 4g runway impact which caused a main gear leg to pierce the wing followed. The Investigation found that the crew had failed to follow relevant normal and abnormal operating procedures and did not understand how flight envelope protection worked or why it had activated on approach.

Description

On 27 November 2017, an Embraer EMB 550 Legacy 500 (RA-02788) being operated by L39 Engineering on a private international positioning flight from Moscow Domodedovo to Paris Le Bourget made a very hard touchdown off an ILS approach to runway 27 at destination in night VMC which resulted in substantial damage to the aircraft landing gear, part of which had penetrated the wing structure but there was no injury to the three crew members on board.

The right main landing gear leg protruding through the wing. [Reproduced from the Official Report]

Investigation

An Investigation into the Accident was carried out by the French Civil Aviation Accident Investigation Agency, the BEA. Relevant data was successfully downloaded from both the FDR and CVR and significant information which was not recorded on the FDR was obtained from the data captured by the Onboard Maintenance System (OMS). It was noted that the 44 year-old Captain had a total of “more than” 1,507 hours flying experience of which 151 hours were on type after obtaining a type rating in October 2016. The 42 year-old First Officer had a total of 5,000 hours flying experience of which just 26 hours were on type.

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