Date: | Friday 17 July 2015 |
Time: | 15:45 |
Type: | Cessna 172RG Cutlass |
Owner/operator: | Private |
Registration: | N6511V |
MSN: | 172RG0741 |
Year of manufacture: | 1980 |
Total airframe hrs: | 7887 hours |
Engine model: | Lycoming O-360-F1A6 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Anoka County-Blaine Airport (KANE), Minneapolis, MN -
United States of America
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Minneapolis, MN (ANE) |
Destination airport: | Minneapolis, MN (ANE) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The flight instructor and commercial-rated pilot receiving instruction departed the airport. When the commercial pilot retracted the landing gear, the pilots both heard a loud “clang” from the vicinity of the left main landing gear. The pilots lowered the landing gear; the right main gear extended but the left main gear did not extend. The pilots recycled the landing gear and then attempted the emergency gear extension procedure, which were both unsuccessful in lowering the left main gear. The pilots flew to the airport and the tower controller reported that the gear was partially extended. The instructor then attempted several maneuvers to get the gear to go down and lock, but these had no effect. When the pilots determined that they would not be able to lower the left main landing gear, the flight instructor performed an intentional gear-up landing. A postaccident examination of the airplane revealed a fractured left main landing gear actuator. Numerous attempts to obtain the broken actuator from the operator were unsuccessful, and a detailed examination of the actuator was not possible.
Probable Cause: Failure of the left landing gear actuator for reasons that could not be determined because the actuator was not made available for examination.
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | CEN15LA309 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report
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Sources:
NTSB
Location
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
20-Jul-2015 23:16 |
Geno |
Added |
21-Dec-2016 19:30 |
ASN Update Bot |
Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency, ] |
01-Dec-2017 15:04 |
ASN Update Bot |
Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
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