CRJ200 returned to departure airport following a failure of the flap extend/retract mechanism.

Attributes
ACN	830123
Time
Date	200904
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Regional Jet 200 ER/LR (CRJ200)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Takeoff
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Flap Control (Trailing & Leading Edge)
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Other Overweight Landing

Narrative:

After takeoff; the flaps failed on initial climbout. The flaps failed at 8 degrees. Captain was pilot flying. First officer was pilot monitoring. ATC was advised of condition and that we would be running checklists and returning to land. Flaps fail checklist was completed. Once all checklists were completed; the captain contacted flight control; maintenance; and operations to advise them of the situation. Seeing that the landing would be overweight; captain declared an emergency and advised ATC that we wanted runway xxr for our landing runway. Landing was accomplished uneventfully; touching down at 200 FPM at just under 48;000 pounds.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CRJ200 returned to departure airport following a failure of the flap extend/retract mechanism.

Narrative: After takeoff; the flaps failed on initial climbout. The flaps failed at 8 degrees. Captain was pilot flying. First Officer was pilot monitoring. ATC was advised of condition and that we would be running checklists and returning to land. Flaps Fail checklist was completed. Once all checklists were completed; the Captain contacted flight control; maintenance; and operations to advise them of the situation. Seeing that the landing would be overweight; Captain declared an emergency and advised ATC that we wanted Runway XXR for our landing runway. Landing was accomplished uneventfully; touching down at 200 FPM at just under 48;000 LBS.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.