# Incident 20080929850979I: Socata TB20TRINIDAD, Champaign/Urba, IL, September 29, 2008

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: September 29, 2008, 12:30 local time
- Place: Champaign/Urba, IL
- Airport: University Of Illinois-Willard
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 40.0386° N, 88.2765° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS/WILLARD (CMI), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=40.0386&lon=-88.2765&mi=10
- Aircraft: N593TB, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N593TB) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Socata TB-20 TRINIDAD (registry code 8680695, https://openairdocs.org/model/socata-tb-20-trinidad) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: SOCATA TB20TRINIDAD
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 2,600 total, 2,535 in this make and model, 12 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20080929850979I

## Narrative

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

(-23) AIRCRAFT HAD NO POSITIVE INDICATION OF NOSE GEAR DOWN.  PILOT FLEW PAST THE TOWER, AND TOWER CONFIRMED THAT THE NOSE GEAR WAS NOT DOWN AND LOCKED.  PILOT ATTEMPTED TO DO AN EMERGENCY EXTENTION OF THE GEAR BUT THE NOSE GEAR WOULD NOT LOCK DOWN.  PILOT LANDED THE AIRCRAFT AND THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED UPON LANDING.

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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