On my last flight after i put the
gear up, the left main indicator light was still on. The tower
confirmed that the left main was still down. I orbited overhead and put
the gear handle down. Three greens. Confirmed by the tower that all
three were down. Set up for a landing with the thought in mind that the
gear may collapse upon touch down, not knowing nor being able to
confirm the reason for this malfuntion. I had had several other
failures on this and preceding this flight that were mostly electrical
in nature that i have been battling with since 30 hours on the plane.
(Main Bus failure, ahrs, overvoltage etc.) Ended up making an
uneventful landing. After further inspections what you see in the
pictures is what i found. To my knowledge, i don't know of any
other Legacies that have had this failure. Please let me know if you
know otherwise. This looks like a bad weld to me!!! All of the forces
on this weld are parallel to the way it sheared off the strut.
Unbelievable!!!! Check the actuator connection to main strut ear on
your Legacies.
Tony Moradian
Legacy L2K330
N444HL