# Incident 20000706033339I: Beech 58, Fort Dodge, IA, July 6, 2000

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 6, 2000, 18:50 local time
- Place: Fort Dodge, IA
- Airport: Fort Dodge Municipal
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 42.5512° N, 94.1918° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at FORT DODGE RGNL (FOD), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.5512&lon=-94.1918&mi=10
- Aircraft: N1833W (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BEECH 58
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 4,056 total
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20000706033339I

## Narrative

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

(-23)PILOT DEPARTED STORM LAKE AIRPORT (SLB) EN ROUTE TO FORT DODGE REGIONAL AIRPORT (FOD). UPON RETRACTING THE LANDING GEAR THE PILOT REPARTED HEARING A LOUD POPPING SOUND.  PILOT MADE LOW PASS OVER SLG AND WAS TOLD THAT THE LANDING GEAR APPEARED TO BE UP AND LOCKED.  PILOT ELECTED TO CONTINUE TO DESTINATION.  PILOT LOWERED LANDING IN PREPARATION FOR LANDING AT FOD AND LANDING GEAR INDICATOR SHOWED GEAR WAS DOWN.  AS PILOT LANDED AND NOSE GEAR TOUCHED DOWN, THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED.  FAILURE OF A BEARING IN THE NOSE LANDING GEAR LINKAGE RESULTED IN A SITUATION WHERE THE NOSE GEAR COULD NOT BE EXTENDED TO THE DOWN AND LOCKED POSITION.  THE FAILURE OF THE BEARING WAS NOT DUE TO AND CANNOT BE LINKED TO EITHER MAINTENANCE OR OPERATIONAL ERRORS.

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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