ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 217464
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| Date: | Friday 19 June 1987 |
| Time: | 21:01 |
| Type: |  Beechcraft D55 Baron |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | VH-MKE |
| MSN: | TE-592 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Bankstown Airport, Bankstown, NSW -
 Australia
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | |
| Bankstown Airport (YSBK), Bankstown, NSW | |
| Investigating agency: | BASI |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Following a normal approach for a night landing, touchdown was made on the main landing gear. The pilot then noticed that the nose was lowering by an excessive amount, and he carried out a successful go-around. Examinations from the ground and from a helicopter equipped with a searchlight revealed that the nose gear was inclined at about 30 degrees to the vertical. The position of the nose gear did not alter when the gear was cycled. After all attempts to lower the nose gear were unsuccessful, the pilot elected to carry out a landing with the main gear retracted. He was unable to use the grass flight strip alongside the lighted runway because of obstructions, and chose to land on an unlit strip. The left engine failed because of fuel exhaustion when the aircraft was on final approach. After touchdown, the aircraft slid off the end of the strip and came to rest against the boundary fence. It was determined that the nosegear retract rod plunger had failed from fatigue, resulting in the nosegear being isolated from the remainder of the landing gear system.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/1987/aair/aair198702410/
https://www.atsb.gov.au/media/31485/aair198702410.pdf
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 28 April 1988 | VH-MKE | 0 | Warkworth Airport, Warkworth, NSW | |
sub | |
| 15 August 1990 | VH-MKE | Wilson Aviation | 1 | 5 mi WNW of Lilydale, VIC | |
w/o |
| Fuel exhaustion | ||||||
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 09-Nov-2018 14:13 | Pineapple | Added |
| 06-Jun-2023 04:00 | Ron Averes | Updated |
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