Immediately afterwards, the blades of the right propeller of the aircraft struck the runway. As the speed was being gradually reduced, the PF had difficulty with controlling the aircraft along its longitudinal axis and noticing that the aircraft was leaning somewhat to the right, reported to the FO that “the gear has broken”. The aircraft crossed the threshold with a speed of 112 kt and after flaring the PF reduced speed to Flight Idle and touched down with a speed of 86 kt. The FO confirmed the correct angle of descent, saying “one white, one red”. While approaching the runway, the PF asked the First Officer (FO) to check the angle of descent based on the APAPIs’ of the runway. The wind information provided by the Air Traffic Control was 18 kt – 25 kt, from 210°. The aircraft, fully configured for landing from a distance of 7nm, approached the airport for landing at runway 27. At a distance of 30 nm from Heraklion and at a altitude of 7700 ft on its descent to 3000 ft, the crew informed the Air Traffic Control that it had the runway in sight and requested and was granted clearance to perform a visual approach. The pilot flying (PF) this particular sector was the Pilot in Command (PIC).
At 18:30 h the aircraft departed Rhodes for Heraklion, carrying three crew members and 15 passengers. The aircraft departed Heraklion at 16:55 h and landed at Rhodes at 17:35 h without incident.
Nothing had been observed during the pre-flight check. The aircraft had earlier on the same day performed, with a different flight crew, four routes (Heraklion – Rhodes – Heraklion and Heraklion – Samos – Heraklion), without any problems being reported. The crew that was going to perform the flight reported for duty at 16:00 h. Flight SEH102/103 of 12 February 2009 was a scheduled passenger carrying flight performing the route Heraklion – Rhodes – Heraklion.
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