# Incident 20081023853069I: Socata TB20TRINIDAD, Portland, ME, October 23, 2008

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: October 23, 2008, 15:28 local time
- Place: Portland, ME
- Airport: Portland International Jetport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 43.6456° N, 70.3086° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at PORTLAND INTL JETPORT (PWM), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=43.6456&lon=-70.3086&mi=10
- Aircraft: N28070, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N28070-2018-02-27) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Socata TB-20 TRINIDAD (registry code 8680695, https://openairdocs.org/model/socata-tb-20-trinidad) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming IO-540 series (registry code 41530, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-io-540-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: SOCATA TB20TRINIDAD
- Reported engine: LYC IO540*
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 1,780 total, 725 in this make and model, 102 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20081023853069I

## Narrative

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

N28070 DEPARTED PRESQUE ISLE, ME (PQI) AT APPROXIMATELY 1400 HRS. WITH A DESTINATION OF PORTLAND, ME. ONE PIC AND ONE FEMALE PASSENGER, N28070 WAS ON AN ANGEL FLIGHT TO BRING THE FEMALE PASSENGER TO MAINE MEDICAL CENTER. OVER MILLINOCKET, ME THE PIC SMELLED A FAINT ODOR OF SMOKE, HE ADDED OUTSIDE AIR IN THE AIRCRAFT AND THE ODOR DISAPPEARED. MAKING HIS APPROACH INTO PORTLAND MAINE JETPORT, HE ENGAGED THE LANDING GEAR LEVER TO LOWER THE LANDING GEAR, HE DISCOVERED THAT HE HAD ONLY TWO MAIN GEAR LANDING LIGHTS BUT NO NOSE WHEEL LIGHT, HE DISCOVERED THAT THE LANDING GEAR CURCUIT BREAKER HAD "POPPED" HE ATTEMPTED THE RESET THE BREAKER BUT EVERY TIME THAT HE DID THE BREAKER KEPT POPPING. PIC ENGAGED THE EMERGENCY LANDING GEAR KNOB BUT THE NOSE LANDING GEAR LIGHT REMAINED OFF, MADE SOME AGGRESIVE MANEUVERS TO SEE IF HE COULD ASSIST THE NOSE LANDING GEAR BUT THE NOSE GEAR LIGHT REMAINED ON. THE PIC DID A FLYBY THE TOWER AND ATC INDICATED TO N28070 THAT THE NOSE GEAR APPEARED SOMEWHAT DOWN BUT NOT LOCKED. THE PIC DECLARED AN EMERGENCY WAS INSTRUCTED TO LAND ON RUNWAY 36 BEYOND THE INTERSECTION OF 29/11 IF HE WAS ABLE, N28070 LANDED ON RUNWAY 36 JUST BEYOND 29/11. DAMAGE WAS CONTAINED TO ALL THREE BLADES OF THE PROPELLER AND SOME SCRAPING ON THE BOTTOM PORTION OF THE NOSE COWLING. THERE WERE NO INJURIES.

## Other reports on N28070 (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 20170417015049A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20170417015049A), Apr 17, 2017: Socata TB-20 TRINIDAD (N28070), Loyalton, CA, Destroyed, 2 fatal. Brenda richard received a weather breifing along with a first hand pilot report from a pilot who just landed. That pilot stated the weather was rapidly…

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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