ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 291901
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| Date: | Friday 18 August 2006 |
| Time: | 18:05 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-24-250 |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | N6249P |
| MSN: | 24-1356 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1959 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 5061 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-540-A1C5 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Auburn, Washington -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Astoria Airport, OR (AST/KAST) |
| Auburn, WA (S50) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
After taking off and determining that the landing gear would not retract properly, and believing that the gear was in the down and locked position, the pilot elected to proceed to the destination airport. After touching down and rolling out on the main landing gear wheels, the nose landing gear was then lowered onto the runway's surface. After the nose landing gear contacted the runway all three landing gear retracted. A post-accident examination of the airplane revealed that the landing gear retraction motor had separated from its rear bulkhead attachment. The component's rivets were fractured in the contact surface plane, with deformation and smeared features observed to be consistent with overstress. It could not be determined when the overstress event occurred.
Probable Cause: The failure of the landing gear's normal retraction/extension assembly due to an overload condition.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB SEA06LA166
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 08-Oct-2022 06:31 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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