# Incident 19960117021859I: Piper PA30, Junction City, KS, January 17, 1996

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 17, 1996, 13:30 local time
- Place: Junction City, KS
- Airport: Freeman Field Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 39.0433° N, 96.8433° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at FREEMAN FLD (3JC), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=39.0433&lon=-96.8433&mi=10
- Aircraft: N7338Y (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA30
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 1,950 total, 60 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/19960117021859I

## Narrative

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

NARRATIVE: CO-OWNER OF AIRPLANE WAS IN VFR TRAFFIC PATTERN FOR RUNWAY 18, PRACTICING TOUCH-AND-GO LANDINGS. ON SECOND LANDING ROLL OUT, THE NOSE GEAR FOLDED FOLLOWED BY THE LEFT MAIN. TOUCH DOWN WAS NORMAL. THE WIND WAS CALM. THE PILOT PLANNED ON A FULL STOP. PILOT HAD VISUALLY CHECKED AND SAW ILLUMINATED GREEN LIGHT INDICATING GEAR DOWN. NO AURAL WARNING WHEN THE POWER WAS REDUCED TO IDLE. RETRACTION OCCURRED AROUND 80 TO 90 KNOTS. SUBSEQUENT INVESTIGATION BY MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL FOUND A FAULTY GEAR POWER RELAY. INVESTIGATION CONTINUING. IT WAS FOUND THAT THE LANDING GEAR RETRACT MOTOR RELAY WAS OPERATING INTERMITTENTLY. A FUNCTIONAL TEST OF THE LANDING GEAR POSITION AND WARNING SYSTEMS WERE COMPLETED. BOTH SYSTEMS OPERATED NORMALLY.

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.

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