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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · North American NAVION · Port Angeles, WA · July 15, 2014

Date
July 15, 2014 · 16:00 local
Place
Port Angeles, WA
Phase of flight
Landing: Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N8818H
Reported as
North American Navion
Reported engine
Continental E225 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0

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 selected the gear to the down position and received no nose gear down indication. After cycling gear with the same result, the pilot assumed based on other indications that the nose gear was down. Pilot landed with the nose gear retracted. A subsequent test of the landing gear system was unable to reproduce the malfunction.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT SELECTED THE GEAR TO THE DOWN POSITION AND RECEIVED NO NOSE GEAR DOWN INDICATION. AFTER CYCLING GEAR WITH THE SAME RESULT, THE PILOT ASSUMED BASED ON OTHER INDICATIONS THAT THE NOSE GEAR WAS DOWN. PILOT LANDED WITH THE NOSE GEAR RETRACTED. A SUBSEQUENT TEST OF THE LANDING GEAR SYSTEM WAS UNABLE TO REPRODUCE THE MALFUNCTION.