# Incident 20001115025099I: Piper PA30, Las Vegas, NV, November 15, 2000

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: November 15, 2000, 09:33 local time
- Place: Las Vegas, NV
- Airport: Mc Carran International
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 36.1750° N, 115.1372° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Las Vegas, NV, within about 7 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=36.1750&lon=-115.1372&mi=10
- Aircraft: N8833Y, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N8833Y) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-30 (registry code 7103002, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-30) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming IO-320 series (registry code 41509, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-io-320-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA30
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 600 total, 57 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/20001115025099I

## Narrative

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

(-23) INCIDENT OCCURRED APPROX. 1733Z (0933 PST) LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED ON TOUCHDOWN. PILOT INDICATED THAT JUST PRIOR TO LANDING, THE LANDING GEAR CONTROL WAS CYCLED BEFORE THE LANDING GEAR INDICATION LIGHTS WOULD RESPOND TO THE LANDING GEAR CONTROL BEING PLACED IN THE "DOWN" POSITION. AN INSPECTION OF THE A/C LANDING GEAR SYSTEM REVEALED THAT THE LANDING GEAR TRANSMISSION RETRACTION MOTOR ASSEMBLY WAS DETACHED FROM ITS MOUNTING SUPPORT BECAUSE OF A BROKEN BRACKET. INDICATIONS, SUCH AS THE SUPPORT BRACKET CRACKS DISCOLORATION AND DISTORTION, ARE THAT THIS DEFECT WAS PRESENT PRIOR TO THIS OCCURRENCE.

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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