Service difficulty report · Landing Gear · Bombdr DHC8400

Difficulty date
January 6, 2016
Submitted
April 22, 2016
Operation
Air carrier
Make and model
Bombdr DHC8400
Engine
Pwc PW150A
Propeller
Rotol CR4086123F17
Part
Landing Gear
Condition
Malfunctioned
Location
Nose
Stage of operation
AP
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
J
Precautionary procedure
O

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

What was found

(CAN) DURING APPROACH THE NLG DIDN`T EXTEND. LOW PASS PERFORMED AND TOWER CONFIRMED NOSE GEAR INDEED NOT OUT. LATER IN HOLDING ALT LANDING GEAR, ALT EXT PROCEDURE PERFORMED AND NLG EXTENDED. UNEVENTFULL LANDING. GVI OF NLG C/OUT. TORQUE CHECK OF ALL HYD LINES WITHIN NLG SYS C/OUT. FOUND .2500 MOVEMENT IN BOTH LINES OF DOWNLOCK ACTUATOR AND 2 LINES OF MSV. SMALL AMOUNT OF AIR FOUND IN SYS, BLEEDING OF HYD SYS 2 VERIFIED AS SATISFACTORY. OPS CHECK OF NLG PRIMARY EXTENSION/RETRACTION C/OUT AS SATISFACTORY. NLG DOOR ACTUATOR CHECKED FOR HYD FLUID BYPASSING. NO LEAKAGE, HYD SYS 2 SAMPLE SENT TO ANALYSIS OK. FOLLOWING PART WILL BE CHANGED AS PREVENTIVE ACTIONS: MECHANICAL SEQUENCE VALVE. NR 61692, SOLENOID SEQUENCE VALVE. 61692, DOOR ACTUATOR NLG.