Second Austral E190 suffers nose-wheel detachment

Argentinean investigators have opened a probe after an Embraer 190 apparently lost its left-hand nose-wheel in Rosario. The Austral Lineas Aereas twinjet had arrived at Rosario following a service from Buenos Aires Feb 16. Argentinean accident investigation authority JIAAC says the incident occurred at about 23:10 local time and none of those on board was injured. But the incident is the second nose-wheel loss to occur to an Austral E190 in about 2 years. JIAAC completed last year an investigation into the previous incident in Jan 2018, which occurred before take-off at Mar del Plata when the left-hand nose-wheel detached during taxiing. Examination of the failure turned up evidence of corrosive pitting and that this had led to an undetected fissure. <br/>