- Date
- January 24, 1990, 17:42 local (22:42 UTC)
- Place
- Morrisville, NC
- Injuries
- 11 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N396AVSwearingen SA 226TC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900124001049A
- Case key
- 8202
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Probable cause
Improper installation of the landing gear door actuator fork assembly by company maintenance personnel.
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 the commuter flight arrived at its destination the right main landing gear would not extend using normal and abnormal procedures. The airplane was returned to the departure airport and landed on the rwy with all wheels retracted. Subsequent examination of the landing gear by the operator revealed that the right main gear door actuator fork assembly had been incorrectly installed. As a result the landing gear door would not open.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N396AV
- Reported as
- Swearingen SA 226TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC-396
- Engine
- Garrett TPE 331-10, 840 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Amr Corporation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- FAY · Fayetteville, NC
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- RDU · Raleigh-Durham, runway 23R, 10,000 × 150 ft, concrete
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 33
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 2,870 total · 1,586 in this make and model · 1,143 as pilot in command · 115 in the last 90 days · 61 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- RDU
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.