- Date
- October 15, 1986, 13:35 local (21:35 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 115 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N753ASBoeing 727-22C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19861015063779I
- Case key
- 4792
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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
After departure, the flight crew retracted the landing gear and noticed a nose gear disagreement light. Upon arriving at Anchorage, the flight crew could not lower the nose gear through normal or manual means. The airplane landed with main gear extended and the nose gear retracted. Examination of the nose gear mechanisms revealed that the two links which exercise the pawl block locks had failed allowing the nose gear to remain in the fully retracted and locked position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N753AS
- Reported as
- Boeing 727-22C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 19203
- Airframe hours
- 45,697
- Engine
- P&W JT8-D-7, 14,000 lbs thrust, turbo jet
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Arco Aviation
- Registered owner
- Alaska Airlines
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Departed
- Kuparak, AK
- Destination
- ANC · Anchorage, AK
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ANC · Anchorage Int'L, runway 6L, 10,300 × 150 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
- 43
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 9,000 total · 2,000 in this make and model · 120 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ANC, 25 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.