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Tecnam P2006T student pilot reported the nose gear failed on landing even though they had three green lights.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1435449 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201703 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Small Aircraft |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Landing |
| Route In Use | None |
| Flight Plan | None |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Nose Gear |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying Trainee |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 27 Flight Crew Total 307 Flight Crew Type 25 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical |
Narrative:
We were going over simulated single engine failure as well as a practice ILS approach circling [to a different runway]. As we turned base we lowered the gear. The instructor pilot [and I] verified we had three green lights showing and I verbally said out loud; 'three green; gear down'. We continued our descent; flare and the main landing gear touched down. Shortly after we lowered the nose; expecting to do a touch and go; but when the nose lowered it dropped straight to the ground. When services came out to help us remove the aircraft from the runway; we tried raising the nose by applying weight to the back to see if the nose gear would swing but it did not. The aircraft still showed that there were three green lights. We believe there was a mechanical failure somehow with the nose landing gear mechanism which caused us to land abruptly on our nose.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Tecnam P2006T student pilot reported the nose gear failed on landing even though they had three green lights.
Narrative: We were going over simulated single engine failure as well as a practice ILS approach circling [to a different runway]. As we turned base we lowered the gear. The instructor pilot [and I] verified we had three green lights showing and I verbally said out loud; 'three green; gear down'. We continued our descent; flare and the Main Landing Gear touched down. Shortly after we lowered the nose; expecting to do a touch and go; but when the nose lowered it dropped straight to the ground. When services came out to help us remove the aircraft from the runway; we tried raising the nose by applying weight to the back to see if the nose gear would swing but it did not. The aircraft still showed that there were three green lights. We believe there was a mechanical failure somehow with the nose landing gear mechanism which caused us to land abruptly on our nose.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.