ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 288062
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| Date: | Saturday 18 September 2010 |
| Time: | 10:45 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 320 |
| Owner/operator: | Association Of Orthopedic Services Pa |
| Registration: | N56VP |
| MSN: | 320-0036 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1961 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 3219 hours |
| Engine model: | Continental TSIO-470-B |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Denton, Texas -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Grand Prairie Municipal Airport, TX (KGPM) |
| Denton Municipal Airport, TX (KDTO) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
During an instructional flight the student pilot performed four uneventful touch-and-go practice takeoffs and landings at one airport and then proceeded to another airport to make a soft-field landing on the grass runway. When the landing gear was extended, the landing gear indicator light did not illuminate. The annunciator lights were checked (press-to-test) and operated normally. He confirmed that the nose landing gear was only partially extended by looking in the convex mirrors mounted in on the engine nacelles. After the pilots cycled the landing gear several times and attempted to perform a manual extension least three times, the certificated flight instructor landed the airplane and the nose gear folded. A postaccident inspection revealed that the push-pull rod that connects the gear transmission to the nose gear had separated, damaging the wing spar and several fuselage ribs.
Probable Cause: The failure of the landing gear push-pull rod.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB CEN10LA567
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 04-Oct-2022 18:13 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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