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Qantas Dash 8 landing gear 'not working'

A report in The Canberra Times says that QantasLink Dash 8 flew three
times between Canberra and Sydney earlier this year with an
undercarriage that could not retract automatically.

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority investigated the aircraft and
discovered that air had made its way into the hydraulic system meant
to retract the landing gear.

CASA asked Qantas to change its operations procedure and the plane's
manufacturer to modify its maintenance manuals.

The authority was alerted to the incidents by a Canberra aviation
economist, Akis Haralabopoulos, who told it that on Monday, January
28, he had travelled to Canberra aboard QF1461 ''with a limited but
reasonable view to the starboard turbo-propeller and landing gear''.

He said that after take-off there had been ''a strange whirring
noise'' from the right and the captain announced that the right
landing gear was not retracting.