Accident de Havilland Canada DHC-4A Caribou N800NC, Friday 2 August 1996

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Date:	Friday 2 August 1996
Time:	11:00 LT
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-4A Caribou
Owner/operator:	Greatland Air Cargo
Registration:	N800NC
MSN:	98
Year of manufacture:	1962
Total airframe hrs:	14638 hours
Engine model:	P&W R2000-7M2
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Category:	Accident
Location:	New Stuyahok, AK - United States of America
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Unknown
Departure airport:	Anchorage, AK (ANC
Destination airport:	(KKNW)
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The airplane's nosegear collapsed during a landing roll on a gravel airstrip. Subsequent examination of the nosegear locking mechanism disclosed a failed hydraulic drag strut locking actuator.

Probable Cause: The collapse of the nosegear precipitated by the failure of the hydraulic nosegear drag strut locking actuator.

Accident investigation: