What happened
On October 28, 2008, a Garuda Indonesia Airlines Boeing 737-400, registration PK-GZI, experienced a failure of the left hand main landing gear assembly. The incident occurred during the taxi-in phase at Ngurah Rai Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. There were no injuries resulting from the event.
The investigation
An investigation conducted under the jurisdiction of the Indonesian government identified a crack in one of the brake mounting holes within the landing gear assembly. Records indicated that the landing gear assembly had been in service for only one day since its installation and had completed 7 cycles since its most recent overhaul. The total number of cycles on the component since new was 15,354.