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A maintenance technician reported a nose landing gear collapse when the tug was unintentionally accelerated in reverse.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1307353 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201510 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Medium Large Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Parked |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Nose Gear |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Technician |
| Qualification | Maintenance Powerplant Maintenance Airframe |
| Experience | Maintenance Technician 17.5 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft |
Narrative:
I was pushing aircraft to park at hangar. Once chocked was going to pull the push tractor back and in to set it up for a crewmate to pull the pin out. As I thought I had my foot on the brake had it on the accelerator; the tractor lunged backwards and pulled the front nose strut out and the aircraft collapsed. Nobody was injured and all were safe.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A Maintenance Technician reported a nose landing gear collapse when the tug was unintentionally accelerated in reverse.
Narrative: I was pushing aircraft to park at hangar. Once chocked was going to pull the push tractor back and in to set it up for a crewmate to pull the pin out. As I thought I had my foot on the brake had it on the accelerator; the tractor lunged backwards and pulled the front nose strut out and the aircraft collapsed. Nobody was injured and all were safe.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.