# Incident 20090725047809I: Weber Harry GLASAIR III, Oxford, CT, July 25, 2009

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 25, 2009, 18:05 local time
- Place: Oxford, CT
- Airport: Waterbury Oxford
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Rollout
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 41.4783° N, 73.1352° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at WATERBURY-OXFORD (OXC), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.4783&lon=-73.1352&mi=10
- Aircraft: N98HW, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N98HW-2010-11-08) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Weber Harry L GLASAIR III (registry code 056051V, https://openairdocs.org/model/weber-harry-l-glasair-iii) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming IO-540 series (registry code 41530, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-io-540-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: WEBER HARRY GLASAIR III
- Reported engine: LYCOMING IO-540 SER
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport
- Pilot flight hours: 21,886 total, 155 in this make and model, 10 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20090725047809I

## Narrative

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

AIRCRAFT DEPARTED OXC FOR A 20 MINUTE FLIGHT. UPON RETURNING TO OXC FOR LANDING, THE PILOT SELECTED GEAR DOWN BUT DID NOT GET 3 GREEN, GEAR DOWN AND LOCKED LIGHTS. THE PILOT INITIATED EMERGENCY EXTENSION PROCEDURES AND ATTEMPTED TO HAND PUMP THE GEAR DOWN BUT STILL NOT GET ALL 3 GREEN GEAR LIGHTS. THE PILOT ASKED TOWER TO LOOK AT THE LANDING GEAR AND THEY CONFIRMED THAT IT WAS DOWN. THE PILOT LANDED ON RUNWAY 18 AND DURING THE ROLL OUT, THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED.THE PILOT ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ REPORTS THAT THE ACTUATOR ARM FOR THE MANUAL EXTENSION WAS LEAKING FLUID AND IT IS BEING REPLACED ALONG WITH THE NOSE GEAR OVER CENTER SPRINGS.

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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