# Incident 19960805031619I: Piper PA44180, Long Beach, CA, August 5, 1996

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 5, 1996, 20:00 local time
- Place: Long Beach, CA
- Airport: Long Beach - Daugherty Field
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 33.7670° N, 118.1892° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Long Beach, CA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=33.7670&lon=-118.1892&mi=10
- Aircraft: N144RJ (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA44180
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 223 total, 20 in this make and model, 30 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19960805031619I

## Narrative

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

NARRATIVE: WHILE CONDUCTING MULTI-ENGINE INSTRUCTION ON AUGUST 5, 1996, PIC NOTED NOSE LANDING GEAR LIGHT NOT ILLUMINATED. EMERGENCY GEAR EXTENSION PROCEDURES WERE ATTEMPTED TO NO AVAIL. PIC LANDED AIRCRAFT ON RUNWAY 25L WITH THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSING AT MID FIELD. OCCUPANTS WERE NOT INJURED. AIRCRAFT NOSE WAS RAISED AND GEAR EXTENDED AND SECURED, TAXI TO PARKING AT RAINBOW AIR. AIRCRAFT INSPECTION REVEALED NOSE COWLING UNDERSIDE SCRAPED, BOTH GEAR DOORS GROUND DOWN, LEFT GEAR DOOR EXTENSION ROD BROKEN OFF AND MISSING, RIGHT GEAR DOOR EXTENSION ROD BROKEN AT DOOR CONNECTION, BOTH SIDES OF NOSE SKIN WRINKLED, ONE STRINGER ON LEFT SIDE BENT. M OR D TO FOLLOW. SUBSEQUENT INSPECTION OF THE AIRFRAME AND NOSE GEAR DAMAGED COMPONENTS REVEALED THAT THE GEAR MECHANISM TUBE ASSEMBLY RIGHT HAND SIDE GEAR DOOR ROD ATTACH BRACKET WAS BROKEN, WITH AN OBVIOUS PRE-EXISTING CRACK AS ORIGINATION POINT. EVIDENCE OF NOSE GEAR DOORS DAMAGE INDICATE THAT THE RIGHT DOOR WAS OPEN ON LANDING, THE LEFT DOOR CLOSED. THE LEFT DOOR SHOWED SIGNS OF CONTACT WITH THE NOSE GEAR WHEEL OR TIRE, ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ WITH THE GEAR MECHANISM TUBE ASSEMBLY BROKEN ON THE RIGHT SIDE, ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ RESULTING IN THE BINDING CONTACT WITH THE NOSE WHEEL ASSEMBLY.

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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