Service difficulty report · Relay · Boeing 7374B7

Difficulty date
December 7, 2000
Submitted
March 20, 2001
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N435US
Make and model
Boeing 7374B7
Aircraft serial
24557
Part
Relay
Part number
BACC18Z3R
Condition
Faulty
Location
Cockpit
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

CLT - FLT 1893 - ON APPROACH INTO CLT, AFTER LOWERING L/G, CAPT RECEIVED A NOSE GEAR UNSAFE IND AND HAD NO IND AS TO THE POSITION OF THE MAIN GEAR. CAPT ATTEMPTED TO RECYCLE THE GEAR BUT THE GEAR HANDLE WOULD NOT MOVE PAST THE NEUTRAL POSITION. THE F/O ACCOMPLISHED THE MANUAL GEAR EXTENSION PROCEDURES AND ACCOMPLISHED A CABIN CHECK TO VERIFY GEAR POSITION. A FLYBY OVER THE CLT TOWER CONFIRMED GEAR WAS DOWN AND APPARENTLY LOCKED. NO EMERGENCY WAS DECLARED BUT THE FLT ATTENDANTS BRIEFED PASSENGERS ON THE SITUATION AND HAD THEM ASSUME THE BRACE POSITION AS A PRECAUTION. FLT LANDED WITHOUT INCIDENT AND TAXIED OFF THE RUNWAY WHERE MX PINNED THE GEAR. FLIGHT THEN PROCEEDED TO THE GATE. CREW REPORTED THAT AFTER

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