Service difficulty report · Landing Gear · Skrsky S61N

Difficulty date
November 7, 2011
Submitted
November 11, 2011
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N103WF
Make and model
Skrsky S61N
Aircraft serial
61766
Aircraft time
50,425 hours
Part
Landing Gear
Part number
S6125503022
Part serial
R140
Condition
Locked
Location
Zone 700
Stage of operation
LD
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
E
Precautionary procedure
O

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

What was found

ACFT FUNCTIONAL CHECK FLIGHT WAS BEING CONDUCTED, FLIGHT QUALITIES WERE ALL NORMAL UP UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE ACFT LANDING WAS ATTEMPTED. WHEN ACFT TOUCHED DOWN AND POWER WAS BEING REDUCED, THE ACFT ENCOUNTERED SEVERE SHUDDER ON THE VERGE OF GROUND RESONANCE. ACFT WAS LIFTED BACK IN THE AIR, FLIGHT QUALITIES NORMAL. ACFT WAS THEN RETURNED FROM OVERFLOW PARKING AREA WHERE FCF WAS CONDUCTED AND NUMEROUS LANDING ATTEMPTS WERE TRIED ON COMPANY PARKING RAMP, ALL WITH THE SAME RESULTS, SEVERE VIBRATION & SHUDDER. AT THIS POINT, EMERGENCY DECLARED AND THE ACFT WAS FLOWN TO THE MAIN RUNWAY, FOR A RUN ON LANDING. ACFT LANDED WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT, SHUTDOWN AND TOWED INTO THE RAMP FOR ANALYSIS. THE RT MLG AND TAIL STRUT WERE REPAIRED IAW MM 32-10-4, THE ACFT WAS THE SATISFACTORILY FLIGHT TESTED.