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| Date: | Sunday 12 January 2025 |
| Time: | 09:15 |
| Type: |  Lake LA-4-200 Buccaneer |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | N8BZ |
| MSN: | 761 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1976 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 2936 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming IO-390 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Orange Municipal Airport (ORE/KORE), Orange, MA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Orange, MA |
| Keene-Dillant-Hopkins Airport, NH (EEN/KEEN) | |
| Investigating agency: | FAA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot of the amphibian airplane reported that while on approach to the destination airport, he attempted to extend the landing gear. The nose landing gear and right main landing gear extended and locked; however, the left main landing gear only partially extended. The pilot could not correct the anomaly by troubleshooting and using the emergency checklist. He subsequently elected to return to his home airport and perform a gear-up landing on a grass area adjacent to the runway. During the landing, the airplane sustained substantial damage to the lower fuselage bulkheads and right wing. The pilot and a mechanic recovered the airplane to a hangar. Several days later, under the supervision of a Federal Aviation Administration inspector, they were able to cycle the landing gear five times with no anomalies noted. The mechanic added that perhaps ice interfered with the left main landing gear, but he could not be sure. .
Probable Cause: Failure of the left main landing gear to fully extend and lock for undetermined reasons as a functional test of the landing gear system could not duplicate the anomaly.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ERA25LA100
https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N8BZ/history/20250112/1355Z
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 19 May 2002 | N1298L | Private | 0 | Frankston, Texas | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 14-Jan-2025 18:22 | James Noyes | Added |
| 14-Jan-2025 18:23 | ASN | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Source, Embed code, ] |
| 06-Feb-2025 20:30 | Captain Adam | Updated [Time, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, Category, Accident report, ] |
| 30-Apr-2025 11:14 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Operator, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
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