20180101007499I

Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Socata TB21TC · Fargo, ND · January 1, 2018

Date
January 1, 2018 · 16:30 local
Place
Fargo, ND
Airport
Hector International
Phase of flight
Landing: Approach
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N425RT
Reported as
Socata TB21TC
People aboard
4
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
600 total186 in this make and model30 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.

Landing gear would not extend after several attempts.

PIC chose to land aircraft with landing gear retracted after attempts to activate the emergency gear extension failed.

Failure of the landing gear was caused by a defective relay.

Damage to the aicraft was minor.

As the FAA filed it

LANDING GEAR WOULD NOT EXTEND AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS.

PIC CHOSE TO LAND AIRCRAFT WITH LANDING GEAR RETRACTED AFTER ATTEMPTS TO ACTIVATE THE EMERGENCY GEAR EXTENSION FAILED.

FAILURE OF THE LANDING GEAR WAS CAUSED BY A DEFECTIVE RELAY.

DAMAGE TO THE AICRAFT WAS MINOR.