ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 273090
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| Date: | Tuesday 18 September 2001 |
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| Type: |  Cessna 310 |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | ZS-EVK |
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| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Grand Central Airport -
 South Africa
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| Departure airport: | Grand Central Airport |
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| Investigating agency: | CAA S.A. |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot and a passenger departed from Grand Central Airport. However, shortly after the pilot selected the undercarriage to the up position, he heard a loud bang. He then attempted to lower the undercarriage with the normal and manual extension system but the nose undercarriage failed to extend properly and did not lock down. The tower visually confirmed that the nose undercarriage was not fully extended during a fly past. The nose undercarriage collapsed during the landing roll. Metallurgical tests showed that the bell-crank from the undercarriage retraction system fractured as the result of a single overload condition. No signs of any fatigue or of a pre-existing defect, which could have initiated the fracture were noted. PROBABLE CAUSE: It appears that the nose undercarriage idler bell-crank fractured after take-off due to the fact that the nose undercarriage was previously subjected to an abnormal landing and/or with the nose undercarriage not fully in the down and locked position.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
S.A. CAA
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