ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334374
| Date: | Saturday 26 October 1957 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  de Havilland DH-114 Heron 2D |
| Owner/operator: | Aviaco |
| Registration: | EC-AOA |
| MSN: | 14120 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1957 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 22 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | San Sebastián-Fuenterrabia Airport (EAS) -
 Spain
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Madrid-Barajas Airport (MAD/LEMD) |
| San Sebastián-Fuenterrabia Airport (EAS/LESO) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The Heron aircraft approached Fuenterrabia normally at an altitude of 900 m. The pilot circled the field to lose height for a runway 06 approach. Touchdown was at about 150 m past the threshold at high speed. Braking action proved ineffective and the aircraft overran the runway into a slough in the estuary of the Bidasoa River. It appeared that a leak in the pneumatic system caused the brakes to be ineffective.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The total discharge of the air system bottles, owing to the internal leak in the landing gear selector, prevented brake functioning."
Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest, Circular 59-AN/54 (32)
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