# Incident 19950214008859I: Gulstm 500RKWELL, Ft Lauderdale, FL, February 14, 1995

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 14, 1995, 14:55 local time
- Place: Ft Lauderdale, FL
- Airport: Ft Lauderdale-Hollywood International
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 26.0717° N, 80.1497° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at FORT LAUDERDALE/HOLLYWOOD INTL (FLL), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=26.0717&lon=-80.1497&mi=10
- Aircraft: N8459C, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N8459C-2021-07-31) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Aero Commander 500 (registry code 0141102, https://openairdocs.org/model/aero-commander-500) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-540 series (registry code 41532, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-540-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: GULSTM 500RKWELL
- Reported engine: LYC O540A2B
- People aboard: 6
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 6,000 total, 2,500 in this make and model, 120 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19950214008859I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

NARRATIVE: ON 2/14/95 AERO COMMANDER 500 N8459C LANDED ON RUNWAY 9R AT FT. LAUDERDALE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. DURING ROLLOUT, THE RT. MAIN GEAR COLLAPSED. FOLLOWED BY THE LEFT MAIN GEAR. THE PILOT IN COMMAND, ALEXANDER BLACKWELL, ADMITTED THAT PRIOR TO LANDING HE FAILED TO CHECK HYDRAULIC PRESSURE ON THE GEAR SYSTEM, NOR DID HE CHECK THE LANDING GEAR POSITION INDICATORS TO ENSURE THEY WERE DOWN AND LOCKED. THE AIRCRAFT WAS PLACED ON JACKS AND IT WAS FOUND THAT THE RIGHT MAIN GEAR SWITCH WAS NOT WORKING PROPERLY, IN THAT WHEN AN UNSAFE GEAR CONDITION EXISTED, THE WARNING HORN DID NOT SOUND. THE SWITCH WAS REPLACED AND THE SYSTEM WORKED NORMALLY . AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE BOTH MAIN GEAR ACTUATORS WERE REPLACED. ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.