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Fellows,
I know the owner of the Lancair and spoke to him
today:
- as already mentioned: he replaced the screws of the
hinge of the nose gear door; the screws he used was too long (about 1/4"
beyond ancour nut)
- hi did no gear check after replacing the srews
:-((
- the hydraulic pressure was able to retract the gear
(high power); there was scratches of the screws at the nose gear
fork
- while lowering the gear, the nose gear was not able
to "overcome" the screw jam; the low pressure switch shut off
hydraulic
- any manouver like pulling high g etc. were not
successful and the test pilot decided to land on grass with all gear
in (the airfield EDML has a 3000ft concrete and parallel a 3000 ft
grass strip) - watch the video to see the landing - in my opinion a
perfect job!
- no injury to any person!!!
- damages:
- two propeller blades (wood MT
prop) brake off
- lower cowling serious
damaged
- XPDR antenna at belly broken
off
- scratches / damage to the
rudder
- nothing else!!! : no damage to the
flaps, no damage to injector, nearly no damage to exhaust system, nearly no
damage to the belly (only slight scratches)
-> my opinion: it was the right decision to use the
grass strip with all gears up and flaps about +20°! This would be my favorite
configuration in any case of an emergency landing (no engine, gear problems
etc.) too! Any other configuration like "no gear on concrete"; "main gear
only on concrete"; "main gear only on grass" would cause more risk and
damage!
Johannes
D-ESWS LNC2
Von: John F. Herminghaus
[mailto:catignano@tele2.it]
Gesendet: Freitag, 10. Juli 2009
13:50
An: lml@lancaironline.net
Betreff: Re: [LML] Belly
Landing L-360 Video
The cause of the accident was that the owner, who I know, replaced
the screws in the nose gear door with stainless screws which were longer than
the ones they replaced. As a result the nose gear retracted, but would not
extend.
Tom McNerney ha scritto:
Not to flood this place with youtube links, but this is something I think everyone should see. Check out the related videos of the plane on the ground before/after the nose gear failure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEWWQsWThxs
Tom
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