|
Sing,
Much as I hate this I'm going disagree with you.
That' not the LA plane as its got snow on the ground.. go to PPRuNe to see other images of that jetblue A320 incident...
Secondly I don't see the scissor link as being detached....
Here's why, the upper porion is attahced to the top fixed section of the front u/c struct....and the bottom section is attahced to the lower pivoting from oleo,, the two seem to be jointed at the 'knee' joint, maybe not split pinned and all that but still attached.
You are right to say that thay link is 'openable' to allow full asteroing of the nosewheel whne neede on confinded are maneouvres.
It seems (and this from PPRuNe) that the failure occured within the steering pistons.. the two 'cans' above the scissor link, at 90 degress to the strut direction...an 'o' ring failed, hence the wheel, having been rotated tho' 90 degrees to retract, could not be rerotated back inline on extension....
|