ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 292089
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| Date: | Saturday 8 July 2006 |
| Time: | 08:40 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-31 |
| Owner/operator: | Everts Air Alaska |
| Registration: | N41185 |
| MSN: | 31-8553001 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1984 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming TIO-540-J |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Fairbanks, Alaska -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Fairbanks International Airport, AK (FAI/PAFA) |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The airline transport certificated pilot was conducting a maintenance test flight related to the airplane's navigation instrumentation under Title 14, CFR Part 91. In a written statement the pilot reported that when he returned from the maintenance flight the tower asked him to expedite the landing due to traffic. He said he put the flaps and gear down, and checked the nose gear in a mirror on the left engine. He indicated that in the mirror, the nose gear appeared to be "extending in a normal manner." He reported that upon touchdown all 3 landing gear collapsed. The director of operations said the airplane was taken to a maintenance facility where landing gear extension and retraction tests were performed, and no anomalies were noted. Photographs provided by the operator showed no damage to the left or right main landing gear tires, wheels, or landing gear leg doors. The photographs do show abrasions and scratches parallel to the fuselage's longitudinal axis on the exterior of both the left and right main landing gear wheel doors, consistent with ground contact in the closed (gear retracted) position. An additional photograph showed abrasions and scratches on the exterior of both nose wheel doors parallel to the longitudinal axis of the fuselage. In a written statement the operator suggested that the gear unsafe horn should be wired through the audio panel, so as to be more easily heard by pilots wearing noise attenuating headsets. The airplane received structural damage to the bottom of the fuselage, stringers, and bulkheads.
Probable Cause: The pilot's inadvertent landing with the landing gear retracted, which resulted in structural damage to the airplane.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ANC06LA093
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 28 June 1994 | N41185 | Private | 0 | Sheldon Point, AK | |
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| 17 September 2004 | N41185 | Tatonduk Outfitters Ltd. | 0 | Telida, Alaska | |
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| 19 February 2009 | N41185 | Frontier Flying Service | 0 | 5 miles northeast of Nome Airport, Nome, Alaska | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 08-Oct-2022 14:21 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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