# Incident 20070528007289I: Beech H35, Eugene, OR, May 28, 2007

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 28, 2007, 18:19 local time
- Place: Eugene, OR
- Airport: Mahlon Sweet Field
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 44.1246° N, 123.2120° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at MAHLON SWEET FLD (EUG), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=44.1246&lon=-123.2120&mi=10
- Aircraft: N353B, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N353B) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Beech H35 (registry code 1151520, https://openairdocs.org/model/beech-h35) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental O-470 series (registry code 17026, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-o-470-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: BEECH H35
- People aboard: 3
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 502 total, 394 in this make and model, 14 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20070528007289I

## Narrative

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

(-23) A BEECHCRAFT BONANZA H35 (N353B) LANDED AT EUGENE OREGON ON RUNWAY 34R, DURING ROLLOUT AFTER LANDING THE NOSE GEAR SLOWLY COLLAPSED RESULTING IN PROPELLE STRIKING THE GROUND AND A SUDDEN ENGINE STOPPAGE. PILOT HAD NOTICED THAT PRIOR TO LANDING ELECTRICAL POWER WAS WEAK, SO HE REDUCED ELECTRICAL LOAD. WHEN HE SELECTED GEAR DOWN THE GEAR APPEARED TO LOWER NORMALLY WITH A DOWN LIGHT INDICATION. PRIOR TO LANDING PILOT ASKED TOWER TO OBSERVE LANDING GEAR POSITION, TOWER INDICATED GEAR APPEARED DOWN. PILOT TRIED TO ROTATE THE EMERGENCY GEAR HAND CRANK IN FLIGHT, HE BELIEVED THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED. THE MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN ASSISTING WITH THE AIRPLANE REMOVAL STATED HE OBSERVED THE MAIN LANDING GEAR INBOARD DOORS WERE DROOPED DOWN WHEN HE ARRIVED TO RECOVER N353B FROM RUNWAY 34R WHICH INDICATES THE GEAR ARE NOT FULLY DOWN AND LOCKED. THE MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN TURNED THE EMERGENCY HAND CRANK APPROXIMATELY 10 ROTATIONS TO FULLY LOCK THE MAIN GEAR PRIOR TO TOWING. POST ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT BATTERY ACID SPECIFIC GRAVITY LEVEL WAS VERY LOW AND THE ALTERNATOR FIELD WIRE WAS BROKEN AT THE ALTERNATOR RESULTING IN BATTERY NOT BEING CHARGED.

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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