Service difficulty report · Landing Gear · Airbus A300F4605R

Difficulty date
April 8, 2011
Submitted
April 12, 2011
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N669FE
Make and model
Airbus A300F4605R
Aircraft serial
774
Aircraft time
21,874 hours, 11,811 cycles
Part
Landing Gear
Condition
Malfunctioned
Stage of operation
AP
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
J
Precautionary procedure
L

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

What was found

ON LANDING WHEN GEAR SELECTED DOWN, INDICATION WERE ON BOTH MAINS WERE DOWN & LOCKED, GREEN, NLG RED, UNLOCKED, NO GREEN. UPPER PANEL INDICATIONS WERE SAME. GREEN LOW AIR PRESSURE LIGHT CAME ON GREEN HYD SYS. RAISED GEAR & LOWERED GEAR AGAIN & NLG SHOWED RED AGAIN. WENT AROUND & IN GO AROUND NLG & ALL INDICATIONS WENT GREEN. LT GEAR DOWN & TRIED ANOTHER APPROACH. BITE CHECKED PROXIMITY ELECTRONIC UNIT PER AMM 32-31-71-04-0. FOUND FAULT CODE 63 PER TSM 32-61-00. R & R PROX DETECTOR PROCESSING UNIT PER AMM 32-31-71-04-0. JACKED NLG PER AMM 11-00-00-07. PERFORMED ADJUSTMENT & TEST AS PER AMM 32-31-00-5 CYCLED GEAR SEVERAL TIMES; OPS CHECKED NORMAL. PER MOCC LUBE NLG PER AMM 12-22-32-00. VERIFIED OPERATING TIMES OF NLG EXTENSION & RETRACTION ARE WITHIN LIMITS PER AMM 32-31-00-05 ON BOTH SYSTEMS 1 & 2. PERFORMED FREE FALL EXTENSION ADJUSTMENT & TEST PER AMM 32-33-00-05. OPS CHECKED GOOD.

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