Red Air MD-82 gear-collapse and excursion traced to shimmy-damper valve leak

Red Air MD-82 accident-c-NTSB

Source: NTSB

US investigators have attributed a Red Air Boeing MD-82’s main landing-gear collapse and runway excursion to ineffective shimmy dampening during roll-out, after the jet touched down in Miami.

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