- Date
- September 26, 1985, 21:00 local (Sep 27, 1985, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ennis, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2637VCessna 177RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850926074979A
- Case key
- 21572
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The plt could not lower the landing gear through use of the normal gear extension system. He was able to partially lower it through the use of the emergency extension system. Next he made an emergency landing at the departure airport during the hours of darkness. The nose gear remained down but unlocked while the main gears folded back into their wheel wells. The aircraft veered off the runway and the right side of its horizontal stabilator struck a short wood post and brought the aircraft to a stop. Investigation revealed that the hydraulic fluid supply had been depleated through a fatigue cracked aluminum pressure line, thus causing the hydraulically operated landing gear system to be inoperative by use of its normal or emergency extension systems.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2637V
- Reported as
- Cessna 177RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 177RG0637
- Engine
- Lycoming IO360A1B6D, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Larry Feaster & David Fearis
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Airport
- F41 · Ennis Muni., runway 33, 3,200 × 50 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
- 28
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 93 total · 20 in this make and model · 54 as pilot in command · 93 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 360° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
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 N2637V · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.