- Date
- July 29, 1990, 17:57 local (21:57 UTC)
- Place
- New York, NY
- Injuries
- 45 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N175RADe Havilland DHC-7-102
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 10, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900729038299I
- Case key
- 36557
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Probable cause
The flight crew's failure to folllow the landing gear emergency checklist. Factors which contributed to the incident were: a jammed nose landing gear due to the installation of a bogus part by unknown person(s) and a dirty gear viewing window.
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 flight crew was unable to get a down and locked indication of the nose gear after several attempts of both normal and emergency extension. In addition, the nose gear view window was dirty, and the crew was unable to determine if the nose gear was down, and they received conflicting ground reports about whether 0R not it was down. During landing, the nose gear collapsed. Post incident investigation disclosed a bogus part installed in the nose landing gear down lock actuator which jammed, preventing full extension. The nose landing gear view window was not a maintenance inspection item. Interviews with the flt crew disclosed they attempted an extension for total hydraulic failure and then reset the selector valve prior to touchdown. When the valve was reset, the pressure on the nose landing gear that was obtained by using the hand pump was released.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N175RA
- Reported as
- De Havilland DHC-7-102
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 56
- Engine
- P&W PT6-50, 1,120 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Operator
- Pan Am Express, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- BOS · Boston, MA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- JFK · John F Kennedy, runway 13L, 10,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 25
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,298 total · 945 in this make and model · 1,717 as pilot in command · 123 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
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