So, what held the gear down? Does the your
aircraft have mechanical downlocks?
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From: Lancair Mailing List
[mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Tony
Moradian
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011
4:32 PM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Left Main strut ear
weld (Hydraulic Actuator) failure
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