Service difficulty report · Socket · Doug DC915F

Difficulty date
February 25, 2014
Submitted
February 26, 2014
Operation
Air carrier
Aircraft
N196US
Make and model
Doug DC915F
Aircraft serial
47155
Aircraft time
77,954 hours, 88,472 cycles
Part
Socket
Condition
Damaged
Location
Mlg Indicator
Stage of operation
CL
How discovered
O
Nature of condition
N
Precautionary procedure
A

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

What was found

LEFT DOWNLOCK GEAR INDICATOR, GREEN, STAYS ILLUMINATED AFTER GEAR RETRACTION. CREW REPORTED THAT AFTER GEAR HANDLE PLACED UP, LT MAIN GEAR GREEN LIGHT REMAINED ILLUMINATED. GEAR APPEARED TO HAVE RETRACTED, ABSENCE OF WIND NOISE AND NO YAWING MOMENT. CREW REFERRED TO THE COM, DECLARED EMERGENCY, PERFORMED LOW APPROACH, ATC ADVISED GEAR APPEARED NORMAL. UNEVENTFUL APPROACH ND LANDING ACCOMPLISHED. MX TROUBLESHOT THE PROBLEM. MX R & R LT MLG SAFE LIGHT SOCKET IAW MM 20-00. THE SYSTEM THEN OPERATIONALLY CHECKED GOOD IAW MM 32-60-00. NO FURTHER DEFECTS NOTED.

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