# Incident 20100517034309I: Cessna 177RG, Pembroke Pines, FL, May 17, 2010

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 17, 2010, 09:30 local time
- Place: Pembroke Pines, FL
- Airport: North Perry
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Rollout
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Operator: FREE
- Location: 26.0013° N, 80.2407° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at NORTH PERRY (HWO), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=26.0013&lon=-80.2407&mi=10
- Aircraft: N8061G, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N8061G) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 177RG (registry code 2073709, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-177rg) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D (registry code 41593, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-io-360-a1b6d) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 177RG
- Reported engine: LYCOMING IO-360-A1B6D
- People aboard: 0
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport
- Pilot flight hours: 0 total, 56 in this make and model, 20 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20100517034309I

## Narrative

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

ON MAY 17, 2010, ACFT N8061G, A CE-177RG(CARDINAL), PILOTED BY MR. MATTHEW A. FREEMAN, ATP CERTIFICATE 2754802, DEPARTED FORT MYERS AIRPORT (FMY) AT APPROXIMATELY 9AM ENROUTE TO NORTH PERRY AIRPORT (HWO) WITH NO PASSENGERS. UPON ARRIVING IN THE VICINITY OF HWO, THE PILOT PREPARED ACFT FOR LANDING (LDG). THE AIRCRAFT DOWN AND LOCKED NOSE GEAR LIGHT FAIL TO ILLUMINATE. THE PILOT INITIATED EMERGENCY PROCEDURES SEVERAL TIMES TO OBTAIN A GEAR DOWN AND LOCK CONFIRMATION LIGHT TO NO AVAIL. NORTH PERRY AIRPORT WAS CONTACTED BY THE PILOT WHO RELAYED HIS PRESENT SITUATION AND REQUESTED MAINTENANCE ASSISTANCE FROM ONE OF THE FBO'S. MR. BOB MILLER, A MECHANIC AND OWNER OF MILLER AVIATION WORKING WITH THE PILOT WHO CONDUCTED SEVERAL APPROACHES WHILE MR. MILLER WAS USING A PAIR OF BINOCULARS IN EFFORT TO DETERMINE IF THE LDG GEAR WAS LOCKED. THE PILOT AND MECHANIC BOTH STATED THE MAIN GEAR SEEMED LOCK BUT THE NOSE GEAR WAS QUESTIONABLE. THE PILOT HAD AN EVENTFUL LDG AS THE NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED. THE PILOT STATED "UPON LANDING THE FRONT SEEMED TO HOLD FOR A SECOND BUT WHEN I RELEASED MY BACKPRESSURE AT THE END OF THE ROLLOUT THE FRONT GEAR COLLAPSED".  FAA FORM 8040-1 M OR D WILL BE SUBMITTED BY MILLER AVIATION.

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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