ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 309081
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| Date: | Friday 7 October 2022 |
| Time: | 10:25 UTC |
| Type: |  Lancair 320 |
| Owner/operator: | Lazenby Pyper Ltd |
| Registration: | G-PJMT |
| MSN: | PFA 191-12348 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1998 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming IO-320-D1B |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Little Snoring Airfield, Fakenham, Norfolk -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | |
| Little Snoring Airfield, Fakenham, Norfolk | |
| Investigating agency: | AAIB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
AAIB investigation to Lancair 320, G-PJMT: Right main landing gear failed to extend, Little Snoring Airfield, Norfolk, 7 October 2022. The incident was the subject of an AAIB Investigation, published on 9 March 2023, and the following is an excerpt from the investigation:
"The aircraft was completing an uneventful flight and was being configured for landing during approach to Little Snoring Airfield. The pilot selected landing gear down and during his prelanding checks saw that only two of the three green down-and-locked indicator lights were illuminated. The right main landing gear was not indicating down and locked.
The in‑built filament test confirmed that it was not just an indication problem, so the pilot recycled the landing gear up and down. As before, the right main landing gear did not indicate down and locked. He requested a visual check via his radio to a nearby aircraft which reported that the right landing gear had not lowered.
The pilot attempted several high energy manoeuvres to free the gear but to no avail. He also used the emergency lowering feature to release pressure in the hydraulic system and repeated the high energy manoeuvres. The right main gear did not move throughout.
He briefed his passenger on the situation and that he would be carrying out a landing with the left main and nose landing gear locked down only. He made a stable approach and landed and used the right aileron to hold the wing off the ground during the landing rollout and maintained directional control using differential braking. Eventually, as the aircraft slowed, it slewed off the paved surface. The nose gear collapsed as it entered a rut at the edge of a field alongside. He made the aircraft safe and vacated the cockpit. The pilot and passenger were uninjured.
=Damage to airframe=
Per the above AAIB Report "Shock loading to engine, front caster wheel detached, destroyed propeller, scratching to starboard flap and wingtip"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. AAIB Final Report: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/63eb6425e90e077bb93a5394/Lancair_320_G-PJMT_03-23.pdf
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Little_Snoring#Current_use
Media:
Lancair 320 G-PJMT nose down at Little Snoring Airfield, Fakenham, Norfolk 7 October 2022 (top left picture)The AAIB March Monthly Bulletin has been published:#Aviation #AviationSafetyhttps://t.co/66a5cZuOgq pic.twitter.com/QSqBgcBddn
— AAIB (@aaibgovuk) March 9, 2023
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