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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Beech B-45 · Amarillo, TX · September 8, 2012

Date: September 8, 2012 · 13:38 local
Place: Amarillo, TX
Phase of flight: Other, Specify
Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N355TT
Reported as: Beech B-45
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Other injuries: 0
Pilot’s certificate: Airline transport
Pilot’s flight hours: 18,156 total1,000 in this make and model66 in the last 90 days

N355TTRegistered now · Beech B-45S/N CG-295 Airframe modelBeech B-45

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.

The pilot of this airplane was performing at a local airshow in Amarillo, Texas. He lowered the gear for landing and the nose gear came down to a 45 degree angle. The pilot radioed the air boss informing him that he was going to fly to Amarillo international airport (kama) to make his emergency landing. The pilot attempted to lower the nose gear with the emergency landing gear system but it failed to lock the nose gear down. The airplane touched down on runway 04 at kama with the nose gear not locked and on roll out it collapsed. There was only minor damage to the airplane.

As the FAA filed it

THE PILOT OF THIS AIRPLANE WAS PERFORMING AT A LOCAL AIRSHOW IN AMARILLO, TEXAS. HE LOWERED THE GEAR FOR LANDING AND THE NOSE GEAR CAME DOWN TO A 45 DEGREE ANGLE. THE PILOT RADIOED THE AIR BOSS INFORMING HIM THAT HE WAS GOING TO FLY TO AMARILLO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (KAMA) TO MAKE HIS EMERGENCY LANDING. THE PILOT ATTEMPTED TO LOWER THE NOSE GEAR WITH THE EMERGENCY LANDING GEAR SYSTEM BUT IT FAILED TO LOCK THE NOSE GEAR DOWN. THE AIRPLANE TOUCHED DOWN ON RUNWAY 04 AT KAMA WITH THE NOSE GEAR NOT LOCKED AND ON ROLL OUT IT COLLAPSED. THERE WAS ONLY MINOR DAMAGE TO THE AIRPLANE.