- Date
- March 27, 1982, 18:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6817TCessna 310D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 27, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Case key
- 69766
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
Just prior to the mishap, maintenance on the aircraft had been performed. This included work on the cabin heater in the nose wheel well area. After takeoff to ferry the plane to a nearby airport, the nose wheel became jammed as the gear was retracted. The main gear could be cycled but the nose gear would not extend. While landing with the main gear extended, the nose section and propeller tips were damaged as the nose was lowered to the runway. An examination revealed that the left nose gear door was partially closed as the nose gear retracted. The nose gear and strut had crushed the door inward and upward. The centering cam/wheel straightener, the upper nose wheel steering mechanism, and the gear retract arm mechanisms on the nose gear doors were worn. Also, a lack of lubrication was noted in the nose gear assembly. The aircraft had been flown approximately 15 hours since the last annual inspection.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6817T
- Reported as
- Cessna 310D
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 39117
- Airframe hours
- 2,970
- Engine
- Continental IO-470D, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- Lee R. Bratcher
- Registered owner
- Lee R. Bratcher
- Departed
- MRI · Anchorage, AK
- Destination
- MRI · Anchorage, AK
- Airport
- MRI · Merrill Field, runway 24, 4,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 47
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,585 total · 651 in this make and model · 1,492 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Temperature
- 84 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MRI