SDR 2011F00205

Service difficulty report · Wire · Beech B200

Difficulty date
September 15, 2011
Submitted
September 27, 2011
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N510GS
Make and model
Beech B200
Aircraft serial
BB1746
Aircraft time
1,876 hours, 1,835 cycles
Part
Wire
Condition
Broken
Location
Nlg
Stage of operation
AP
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
P
Precautionary procedure
A

As reported to the FAA. Reports are unverified, and codes are left as the FAA publishes them.

What was found

CREW NOTICED NOSE GEAR LIGHT DID NOT INDICATE GREEN. CREW CHECKED BULB IT WAS GOOD. DID NOT HAVE A "RED" UNSAFE LIGHT AND WHEN FLAPS PUT TO "FULL" DOWN, NO GEAR WARNING HORN. TOWER SAID GEAR APPEARED DOWN BUT COULD NOT VERIFY IF IT WAS LOCKED. DIVERTED WHERE THERE WAS BETTER MX FACILITIES AND EMERGENCY CREWS IN CASE OF A GEAR COLLAPSE. DECLARED AN EMERGENCY. LANDING WAS UNEVENTFUL, AND TAXIED TO THE FBO. MX DETERMINED GEAR WAS DOWN & LOCKED, A BROKEN WIRE WAS DISCOVERED ON NLG DOWNLOCK INDICATOR SWITCH. WIRE REPAIRED. ALSO DISCOVERED THAT THE STEERING BOLTS WERE INSTALLED BACKWARDS, AND THAT DURING GEAR RETRACTION AND EXTENSION THERE WAS CHAFING ON THE NOSE GEAR INDICATOR SWITCH WIRE. MX REMOVED AND PROPERLY REINSTALLED THE STEERING BOLTS AND PERFORMED MAIN GEAR RETRACTION/ EXTENSION TEST; NO DEFECTS WERE NOTED. THE ACFT WAS THEN RETURNED TO SERVICE.

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