# Incident 20120517010859I: Piper PA-32R-300, Anchorage, AK, May 17, 2012

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 17, 2012, 15:31 local time
- Place: Anchorage, AK
- Airport: Merrill Field
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Approach
- Operating rules: Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
- Operator: SN6C
- Location: 61.2135° N, 149.8447° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at MERRILL FLD (MRI), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=61.2135&lon=-149.8447&mi=10
- Aircraft: N40449, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N40449) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-32R-300 (registry code 7103213, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-32r-300) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming TI0-540 series (registry code 41533, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-ti0-540-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA-32R-300
- People aboard: 7
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Airline transport
- Pilot flight hours: 15,000 total, 5,000 in this make and model, 275 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20120517010859I

## Narrative

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

PIC WAS ON A STRAIGHT IN APPROACH FOR RUNWAY 25 AT MRI, WHEN LANDING GEAR HANDLE WAS MOVED TO SELECT DOWN THE NOSE GEAR "DOWN AND LOCKED" LIGHT FAILED TO ILLUMINATE.  PIC RECYCLED THE GEAR BUT THE SAME CONDITION RESULTED. PIC REQUESTED A LOW APPROACH FOR THE TOWER COULD ADVISE ON THE CONDITION OF THE NOSE GEAR. THE TOWER AT FIRST STATED THAT IT APPEARED THE GEAR WAS DOWN BUT ANOTHER AIRCRAFT STATED THAT HE THOUGHT THE NOSE GEAR WAS NOT QUITE ALL THE WAY DOWN. IN DOWNWIND PIC RECYCLED THE LANDING GEARH AGAIN.   THE TOWER ADVISED THE PIC THAT THE NOSE GEAR CAME UP BUT THE MAINS WERE STILL IN THE DOWN POSITION.  THE TOWER OPERATOR ADVISED PIC THAT THEY HAD CALLED FIRE - RESCUE TO STANDBY. PIC HAD NOT COMPLETED THE GEAREXTENSION CHECKLIST AND HAD NOT DECLARED AN EMERGENCY AT THIS TIME. PIC CHECKED THE BULB IN THE N0SE GEAR DOWN LIGHT AND IT WAS GOOD .   PIC SLOWED THE PLANE TO BELOW 80KTS LOWERED THE GEAR AND THE NOSE GEAR LIGHT ILLUMINATED. PIC TOLD THE TOWER HE HAD THREE GREEN AND WAS GOING TO LAND.  AIRCRAFT LANDED WITH NO FURTHER PROBLEMS.

## Other reports on N40449 (2)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 20190213010179A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20190213010179A), Feb 13, 2019: Piper PA-32R-300 (N40449), Anchorage, AK, No damage. Flight was returning from lime village (2AK). On decent in the vicinity of figure eight lake, N40449 encountered severe turbulence. One passenger sustained…
- [Accident 20020904024119A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20020904024119A), Sep 4, 2002: Piper PA32R300 (N40449), Manley Hs, AK, No damage. Y-23) [privacy data omitted] during takeoff from Manley hot Springs, the aircraft flew into a flock of geese striking one goose with the right outboard wing…

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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