- Date
- May 24, 1984, 08:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Albuquerque, NM
- Injuries
- 19 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N237AMSwearingen SA226TC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840524038659I
- Case key
- 16272
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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
When gear was lowered for landing rt main gear would not extend although persons on the ground stated the gear doors appeared open. Remedial action by the flt crew did not rectify the situation and a gear up landing was performed. When acft was raised from rwy and rt main gear doors forced open, a mechanics tool, called an awl, fell out of wheel well. Examination of marks on the awl and in the wheel well indicated the awl became lodged btw the keelson web and the door hinge. This would have blocked the doors from opening past the half way position thus preventing gear extension. A mechanic had performed a routine gear inspection using an awl to align some screw holes on the evening preceeding the incident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N237AM
- Reported as
- Swearingen SA226TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC 332
- Airframe hours
- 8,310
- Engine
- Airesearch TPE-331, 940 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Air Midwest Airlines, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Air Midwest Airlines, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- AAIP · May 23, 1984 · 238 hours before
- Departed
- ROW · Roswell, NM
- Destination
- ABQ · Albuquerque, NM
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- ABQ · Albuquerque Int'L Arpt., runway 35, 8,993 × 200 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
- 31
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,870 total · 4,300 in this make and model · 6,520 as pilot in command · 245 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ABQ
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N237AM · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.