# Incident 20000612021869I: Piper PA42, St Louis, MO, June 12, 2000

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 12, 2000, 09:30 local time
- Place: St Louis, MO
- Airport: Lambert-St Louis International
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 38.6273° N, 90.1979° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of St. Louis, MO, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=38.6273&lon=-90.1979&mi=10
- Aircraft: N51KC, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N51KC-2020-09-04) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-42 (registry code 7104202, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-42) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Pratt & Whitney PT6A series (registry code 52032, https://openairdocs.org/engine/pratt-whitney-pt6a-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA42
- Reported engine: PWA PT6*
- People aboard: 3
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 7,050 total, 1,900 in this make and model, 160 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000612021869I

## Narrative

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

(-23) PILOT NOTICED UNFAMILIAR SOUND ON FINAL FOR STL. MIRRORS ON NACELLES SHOWED NLG NOT DOWN AND LOCKED. TOWER CONFIRMED. PILOT DECLARED EMERGENCY AND LANDED ON RUNWAY 24 SUCCESSFULLY AFTER NLG COLLAPSED ON LANDING. A/C MOVED TO MID COAST AVIATION. FOUND NLG IDLER LINK ASSY BROKEN AT ACTUATOR CLEVIS ATTACH POINT. MINOR DAMAGE TO A/C. NO INJURIES. THREE SOULS ON BOARD.

## Other reports on N51KC (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 20020203006729I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20020203006729I), Feb 3, 2002: Piper PA42 (N51KC), Charleston, WV. (-23) While enroute from sallsbury, NC to akron, oh (akr) at 23000 AGL, pilot declared an emergency over Charleston, WV, Vortac (hvq) due to loss of cabin…

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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