- Date
- June 4, 2002, 22:00 local (Jun 5, 2002, 03:00 UTC)
- Place
- Little Rock, AR
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N799DDBeech BE-100-A100
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report April 29, 2003
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20020604015769A
- Case key
- 54852
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Probable cause
The malfunction of the left main landing gear retraction/extension assembly due to a missing lock pin/washer/nut on the clevis of the push/pull gear extension tube that resulted from improper maintenance.
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 on a practice approach when he extended the landing gear. The cockpit gear indicators yielded "two" green indications. A go-around was performed and the gear cycled several times with no results, including an attempt to use the emergency extension system. Two confirmation passes were performed, and it was confirmed that the left main landing gear was retracted with the nose and right main landing gear extended. After touch down on the right side of the runway, the aircraft exited the left side of the runway. Examination of the aircraft revealed that left gear extension push/pull tube was found without the lock pin in its clevis. The pin was found in the belly of the aircraft but no nut and washer was found. The aircraft had recently come out of a maintenance facility where the landing gear was worked on.
Factual narrative
On June 4, 2002, approximately 2200 central daylight time, a Beech BE-100-A100 twin-engine airplane, N799DD, registered to and operated by Finkbeiner Aviation of Little Rock, Arkansas, was substantially damaged when its main landing gear collapsed while landing on runway 18 at Adams Field Airport, Little Rock, Arkansas. The airline transport rated pilot and his pilot-rated passenger were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and flight plan was not filed for the Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The local flight originated at 2200 from Adams Field.
According to information provided in a telephone interview and the enclosed NTSB Pilot/Operator Accident Report (NTSB Form 6120.1/2), the pilot was on a practice approach when he extended the landing gear. The cockpit landing gear indicators yielded "two" green indications. A go-around was performed and the gear cycled several times with no results, including an attempt to use the emergency extension system. Two confirmation passes were performed, and it was confirmed that the left main landing gear was retracted with the nose and right main landing gear extended. After touch down on the right side of the runway, the aircraft exited the left side of the runway resulting in structural damage to the fuselage belly.
Examination of the aircraft revealed that left gear extension push/pull tube was found without the lock pin in its clevis. The pin was found in the belly of the aircraft but no nut and washer was found.
The aircraft had recently come out of a maintenance facility where the landing gear was worked on.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N799DD
- Reported as
- Beech BE-100-A100
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- B-102
- Airframe hours
- 8,400
- Engines
- Pratt & Whitney PT6-28, 680 horsepower, turbo propPratt & Whitney PT6A-28, 680 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Chris Finkbeiner
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · March 11, 2002 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- LIT · Little Rock, AR
- Destination
- LIT · Little Rock, AR
- Airport
- LIT · Adams Field, runway 18, 5,124 × 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
- 48
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Last flight review
- November 20, 2001
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 19,000 total · 2,500 in this make and model · 70 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 360° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.92 inHg
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 10, 2003, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 406 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.