- Date
- January 15, 1991, 19:52 local (23:52 UTC)
- Place
- Nome, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4118GPiper PA-31-350
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 9, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19910115000689I
- Case key
- 5493
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Probable cause
Was the sheared fitting on the nose gear actuator shuttle valve which caused the nose gear to not extend for landing.
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
During final approach, the pilot could not get the nose gear down and locked, so he elected to land on the runway on the main gear only. Examination of the landing gear revealed a sheared fitting on the nose gear actuator shuttle valve.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4118G
- Reported as
- Piper PA-31-350
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31-8453001
- Airframe hours
- 6,818
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540, 350 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- James P. Rowe
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · January 9, 1991 · 13 hours before
- Departed
- SVA · Savoonga, AK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- OME · Nome, runway 27, 6,001 × 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
- 32
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 11,717 total · 5,000 in this make and model · 11,500 as pilot in command · 220 in the last 90 days · 80 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -20 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OME, 1 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.