- Date
- March 23, 1982, 19:03 local (Mar 24, 1982, 00:03 UTC)
- Place
- Kalamazoo, MI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6069CBeech 65-A90
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report March 23, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820323008059A
- Case key
- 71216
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The plt heard a grinding noise when he attempted to lower the landing gear. The gear would not extend with either the normal or emergency systems. The acft landed with the gear in the partially extended position. Subsequent to examinationof the nose landing gear actuator by the manufacturer, the gear box for the nose gear actuator was disassembled. It was still packed with grease. While removing the mass of grease from around the drive pinion gear, a small nut, foreign to the inside of the gear box, was found buried, and invisible, in the grease that was packed around the beveled gears. Examination of the nut showed indentations of two opposite sides. Placement of the nut on either side of the point whereboth beveled gears met would jam the rotation in either the retract of extend cycle. On 12/23/77 the gear actuators werereplaced with rebuilt parts.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6069C
- Reported as
- Beech 65-A90
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- LJ291
- Airframe hours
- 6,881
- Engine
- P & W PT6A-20, 550 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 91
- Operator
- Dowling Bag Co.
- Registered owner
- Dowling Bag Co.
- Departed
- Hamilton, OH
- Destination
- South Bend, IN
- Airport
- AZO · Kalamazoo, runway 23, 3,925 × 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
- 45
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 11,986 total · 1,916 in this make and model · 11,711 as pilot in command · 88 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 190° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AZO
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.