Avião da TAM faz pouso forçado em Nova York(Nota)

Uma aeronave da TAM que realizava o voo JJ8078 (Rio de Janeiro/Galeão-Nova York), que decolou à 1h09 desta quinta-feira, apresentou indicação de anormalidade no trem de pouso dianteiro na aproximação para a aterrissagem.

Segundo a companhia aérea, a tripulação tomou todas as medidas de precaução necessárias e a aterrissagem ocorreu em total segurança, no começo da tarde desta quinta.

The Aviation Herald TAM A332 at New York on Sep 26th 2012, nose gear steering fault cleared on touch down

A TAM Linhas Aereas Airbus A330-200, registration PT-MVQ performing flight JJ-8078 (dep Sep 25th) from Rio de Janeiro,RJ (Brazil) to New York JFK,NY (USA) with 190 people on board, was on final approach to JFK's runway 22R when the crew initiated a go around at about 300 feet AGL declaring PAN immediately. The crew reported they had 35 minutes of fuel remaining until consuming into diversion fuel, they had a problem with the nose gear steering and advised they would not be able to vacate the runway and needed to be towed off the runway, they did not declare emergency. 

The crew requested another approach to runway 22R, positioned for another approach and was on final approach to 22R 18 minutes later in contact with tower, when the tower told the crew he was told the nose gear appeared to be in the wrong position, the crew reported the nose gear was indicated down, they just had no nose wheel steering and wanted to continue the landing. A few seconds later tower, quite alerted, advised the nose gear appeared to be sideways, the crew decided to go around from about 200 feet MSL. 

The crew subsequently reported on departure that everything appeared normal with the nose gear except for a steering fault, but tower reported the nose gear was turned sideways, so the crew wanted to run the checklists and were preparing for another approach. Departure offered runway 31L which was accepted, the aircraft positioned for the approach, departure subsequently relayed a message of TAM maintenance to the crew to reset a switch related to the nose gear steering. The crew subsequently reported the fault had cleared and everything was now clear, the captain advised they were now going to land on runway 31L. On short final the crew checked with tower whether the nose gear appeared normal, tower advised it did not appear normal but appeared to be rotated by 90 degrees. The aircraft landed safely on JFK's runway 31L about 45 minutes after aborting the first approach and vacated the runway, tower reported that upon touchdown the nose gear appeared to straighten out. 

After turning off the runway the aircraft stopped on taxiway P and shut down, emergency vehicles checked the nose gear. Emergency services reported there was no visible anomaly except for the head light which was cracked. The aircraft was subsequently towed to the apron.

A photo by a ground observer confirmed the nose wheels were rotated about 80 degrees out of direction of movement.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/TAM8078/history/20120926/0214Z/SBGL/KJFK

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