# Incident 20060610011519I: Cessna 310N, Livermore, CA, June 10, 2006

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: June 10, 2006, 12:41 local time
- Place: Livermore, CA
- Airport: Livermore Municipal Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Level Off Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 37.6934° N, 121.8204° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at LIVERMORE MUNI (LVK), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.6934&lon=-121.8204&mi=10
- Aircraft: N6389M, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N6389M-2017-05-31) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 310N (registry code 2074234, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-310n) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-470 series (registry code 17044, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-470-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 310N
- Reported engine: CONT IO470*
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 1,651 total, 624 in this make and model, 7 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20060610011519I

## Narrative

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

(-23) PILOT DEPARTED RUNWAY 25R AT LVK. AFTER ROTATION AND POSITIVE RATE OF CLIMB WAS ESTABLISHED HE SELECTED THE LANDING GEAR LEVER IN THE UP POSITION. MIDWAY THROUGH THE GEAR RETRACTION CYCLE, THE PILOT HEARD A LOUD NOISE INDICATING A MALFUNCTION IN THE GEAR SYSTEM. HE THEN SELECTED GEAR DOWN AND OBSERVED A GREEN LIGHT INDICATION ON THE MAIN GEAR WITH NO INDICATION ON THE NOSE GEAR. PILOT THEN CALLED LVK TOWER REQUESTING A FLY-BY TO CONFIRM THE STATUS OF THE NOSE GEAR. AFTER THE TOWER CONFIRMED THE NOSE GEAR WAS NOT IN THE FULL DOWN POSITION, THE PILOT RESPONDED HE WOULD LIKE TO RETURN FOR A LANDING. THE TOWER INITIATED AN EMERGENCY PROCEDURE PUTTING THE PILOT IN A DOWNWIND LEG FOR RUNWAY 25R. HAVING COMPLETED EMERGENCY PROCEDURES, THE PILOT TOUCHED DOWN GENTLY, NOSE HIGH AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, AND AS SOON AS THE NOSE WHEEL TOUCHED THE RUNWAY, THE NOSE LANDING GEAR COLLAPSED WITH THE AIRCRAFT COMING TO REST WITH NO FURTHER INCIDENT. SUBSEQUENT INVESTIGATION REVEALED THE FRONT LANDING GEAR IDLER BELLCRANK, P/N 0821102-2, BROKE CAUSING THE MALFUNCTION. MDR TO FOLLOW.

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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