Service difficulty report · Support Beam · Amd FALCON20

Difficulty date
December 21, 2008
Submitted
May 15, 2009
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N165TW
Make and model
Amd FALCON20
Aircraft serial
65
Aircraft time
16,360 hours, 11,807 cycles
Part
Support Beam
Condition
Damaged
Location
Nlg
Part time
16,360 hours, 11,807 cycles
Stage of operation
LD
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
O
Precautionary procedure
O

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

What was found

AT APPROX 0100 EST, ACFT LANDED, DUE TO CONTAMINATION PRESENT ON THE RUNWAY THE ACFT STOPPED 100 FT INTO THE RUNWAY OVERRUN. THE ACFT TAXIED UNDER IT'S OWN POWER TO THE RAMP. THE CREW REPORTED THAT THERE WAS CRACK IN THE NOSE GEAR STRUT. A REPORT WAS FILED WITH THE NTSB. INITIAL EVALUATION BY A MAJOR FBO SUGGESTED THE NOSE GEAR SHOULD BE CHANGED PRIOR TO FLT. OPERATOR ELECTED TO HAVE MFG EVALUATE ACFT. EVALUATION REVEALED THAT STRUCTURAL DAMAGE WAS PRESENT TO THE NOSE GEAR ATTACH BEAM AND SURROUNDING ACFT STRUCTURES.