# Incident 20090216000879I: Piper PA23250, Mansfield, MA, February 16, 2009

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: February 16, 2009, 18:35 local time
- Place: Mansfield, MA
- Airport: Mansfield Municipal
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 42.0009° N, 71.1980° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at MANSFIELD MUNI (1B9), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.0009&lon=-71.1980&mi=10
- Aircraft: N273AD, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N273AD-2012-02-06) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-23-250 (registry code 7102308, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-23-250) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming IO-540 series (registry code 41530, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-io-540-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA23250
- People aboard: 3
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 1,700 total, 50 in this make and model, 100 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20090216000879I

## Narrative

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

AT APPROXIMATELY 1820 AIRCRAFT N273AD LANDED WITH THE NOSE GEAR RETRACTED IN MANSFIELD, MA (1B9).  THERE WAS 1 PILOT AND 2 PASSENGERS ONBOARD AND THERE  WERE NO INJURIES REPORTED.  THE PILOT REPORTED DURING APPROACH TO RUNWAY 14 THAT HE PLACED THE GEAR HANDLE DOWN AND FELT THE GEAR CLICK BUT DID NOT GET ALL 3 GREEN LIGHTS.  THE APPROACH WAS DISCONTINUED AND THE AIRCRAFT WAS FLOWN TO AN AREA WHERE THE PROBLEM COULD BE EVALUATED AND EMERGENCY PROCEDURES REVIEWED.  THE GEAR WAS RECYCLED BUT THE NOSE GEAR INDICATION STILL DISAGREED.  THE PILOT ACCOMPLISHED A FLY BY BUT IT WAS DARK AND THE LINE PERSONNEL WERE NOT ABLE TO DETERMINE THE GEAR POSITION.  THE AIRCRAFT LANDED AND UPON BRAKEING THE NOSE GEAR SETTLED ON THE RUNWAY AND THE AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST APPROXIMATELY 1800 FEET DOWN THE RUNWAY.  IN AN EXAMINATION OF THE AIRCRAFT THE FOLLOWING DAY THE GEAR WAS MANUALLY  EXTENDED & RETRACTED WITH THE EMERGENCY HAND PUMP ALTHOUGH, THE EMERGENCY PUMP WOULD NOT BE AVAILABLE BECAUSE THE HYDRAULIC PUMP DID NOT FAIL.  THE PILOT DID NOT USE THE CO2 BLOW DOWN SYSTEM BECAUSE HE FELT IT WAS JUST AN INDICATION PROBLEM.  THE GEAR EXTENSION SYSTEMS ARE CURRENTLY BEING TESTED.

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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