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The PIC advised that he had the "green" down and lock lights illuminated for both the nose gear and the right wing landing gear, but could not get the light signal to illuminate for the left wing gear. He said he pumped it a couple times and then decided to retract all gear and pulled up on the handle. The green lights went out and the "gear in transit" light remained on. He then tried putting the gear down again, to the same results. He then tried to manually lower the gear and still only got the two lights to illuminate for the nose and right wing gear. He advised that the emergency extension handle was very difficult to pump and he had to exert extensive force. When asked why he chose to land on only the 2 gear that were down and why he elected the right grassy side of the runway, he stated that he thought he would incur less damage with the 2 wheels down and he elected to land as FAR to the right as possible because he knew that once the left wing touched the ground, it would most likely spin him around. Site inspection confirmed that the a/c did spin in a wide arch, almost a 180 degrees and came to rest on the left side of the runway at the top of a ridge. On April 13, 2011, inspected N899AE, a Beech 99 that was involved in a landing accident at Cedartown ga. A close examination of the aircraft revealed the following damages of which several, will place the aircraft in a accident category. The aircraft was parked with all landing gear extended. The left gear was strapped on the brace with steel to prevent collapse. The actuator clevis pin was removed by atlanta air salvage for the purpose of recovery to extend the gear gown to move the aircraft. I was met by representatives of air services who were authorized by the insurance company privacy data omitted. Air services conducted their examination for the estimate and confirmed the damages identified below.1. The left aileron has abrasion though the skin and rib support on the outboard aft area. The abrasions are 45 degrees to the normal line of flight and are consistent with the other damages noted. 2. The left wing tip trailing edge is ground down involving an area approximately 8 inches by 12 inches.3. The left flaps are ground down and buckled in such a manner that indicates compression along the lateral axis. The attachment fittings to the aft spar may also be damaged. This can only be determined by a close inspection after the flaps are removed.4. The left wing leading edge has compression damage inboard and outboard of the stall lift detector, approximately 10 inches long and 4 inches deep.5. The left wing leading edge to lower surface is creased to the front spar. 6. The left wing 10 inches aft of the front spar has a compression approximately ¾ "deep by 2" in the primary wing structure.7. There evidence of distortion in the wing lower surface along a rib aft of the front spar along the lift detector chord area. This may have been from a previous damage.8. The fuselage frame and skin has 3 punctures and tears one of which involves a main frame. These damages are located below the jump entrance/exit door.9. The left propeller has evidence of bending consistent with a stoppage event. The propeller did rotate freely and the turbine section was still intact. The engine trusses and firewall did not appear to have damage. 10. The left gear actuator (Beech pn 99-810057 xxx) has evidence of wear or failure where the drive enters the housing. 11. The floor access panel to the landing gear motor was removed and the manual extend was still engaged. The circuit breaker for the motor was popped.