Created Thursday, Mar 20th 2025 11:09Z, last updated Thursday, Mar 20th 2025 20:14Z
An Air Baltic Bombardier C-Series CS-300 on behalf of Swiss, registration YL-AAV performing flight
LX-2250 from Zurich (Switzerland) to Budapest (Hungary) with 117 people on board, was climbing out of Zurich's runway 28 when the crew stopped the climb at FL160 due to problems with the landing gear. The aircraft returned to Zurich for a safe landing on runway 14 about 30 minutes later and stopped on the runway due to a nose gear problem.
The airline reported the landing was uneventful, however, the aircraft could not taxi to the apron due to a nose gear malfunction.
The airport reported due to the aircraft on runway 14 landings are currently done on runway 16.
According to information The Aviation Herald received, a landing gear system malfunction occurred triggering a master caution once airborne. After landing smoke was observed from the right hand main gear. Preliminary post flight examination indicates that a loss of hydraulic fluid from the shock absorber had occurred causing a malfunction, a number of detached parts were recovered from the departure runway.
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