- Date
- July 28, 1991, 18:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Morrisville, NC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6713PBeech C24R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910728033399A
- Case key
- 8445
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Probable cause
Failure of the left main landing gear uplock cylinder which precluded extension of the landing gear.
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
The pilot was unable to extend the left main landing gear. After about 40 minutes of circling to reduce the fuel in the airplane, an intentional gear up landing was made. Subsequent examination of the landing gear revealed that the left uplock cylinder had failed internally. The failure precluded movement of the uplock cylinder and extension of the left main wheel.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6713P
- Reported as
- Beech C24R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MC713
- Airframe hours
- 1,509
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Business Insurance Mgmt., Inc.
- Registered owner
- Business Insurance Mgmt., Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 28, 1990 · 19 hours before
- Departed
- 4W3 · Fuquay, NC
- Airport
- RDU · Raleigh-Durham Int'L, runway 32, 4,498 × 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
- 49
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,176 total · 214 in this make and model · 1,040 as pilot in command · 166 in the last 90 days · 53 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,800 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RDU, 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.