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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 414 · Jamestown, NY · April 15, 2011

Date
April 15, 2011 · 17:40 local
Place
Jamestown, NY
Airport
Chautauqua County/Jamestown
Phase of flight
Landing: Rollout
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N82TR
Reported as
Cessna 414
Reported engine
Continental TSIO-520 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Commercial pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
3,100 total120 in this make and model40 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry 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.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Pilot in command reports that while extending the landing gear, the nose wheel did not fully extend. He performed various procedures in an attempt to lower the nose gear and get it to lock down without success. As a result the airplane landed on the main landing gear and skidded to a stop on the nose.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT IN COMMAND REPORTS THAT WHILE EXTENDING THE LANDING GEAR, THE NOSE WHEEL DID NOT FULLY EXTEND. HE PERFORMED VARIOUS PROCEDURES IN AN ATTEMPT TO LOWER THE NOSE GEAR AND GET IT TO LOCK DOWN WITHOUT SUCCESS. AS A RESULT THE AIRPLANE LANDED ON THE MAIN LANDING GEAR AND SKIDDED TO A STOP ON THE NOSE.