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A BE58 pilot reported that the nose gear would not indicate safe before landing. After numerous attempts to get a safe indication electrically and with a manual extension a landing was made but the aircraft settled on the nose during roll out.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 919426 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201011 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601-1200 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Baron 58/58TC |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Final Approach |
| Flight Plan | None |
| Component | |
| Aircraft Component | Nose Gear |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Single Pilot |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Private |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 52.6 Flight Crew Total 324.3 Flight Crew Type 15.9 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical |
Narrative:
I began to recognize my nose gear failure 5 NM out from the airport while working through my pre landing check list. The nosewheel light had not lit; yet I could feel and hear the gear were down. I checked the mirror on the left nacelle and saw the nosewheel was down; but possibly not as forward as I've remembered in the past. I made left traffic for runway 9 and called three green on turn from base to final. Noticing once again my nosewheel was not lit I flipped the navigation lights on and off to check for a lighting issue. I used a soft field landing technique and felt an uneasy nose low attitude on roll out so I brought the power forward and departed making a call on the CTAF to anyone at the airport who could help with a visual from the ground to see the condition of my landing gear. I had flown the plane down to pick up my instructor and luckily enough he was monitoring the CTAF on his hand held radio. I made a trip around the pattern cycling the gear lever with the same result every time. I made a pass at about 100 ft AGL for my instructor to view the gear with the lever in the down position. After that pass we decided on a pass with the gear up for him to inspect if the gear was making a complete cycle. With that pass complete it was decided to head out toward our practice area for a manual gear extension. After multiple attempts to complete the manual extension I returned to airport for one more pass at 100 ft AGL then another landing attempt. On that attempt the nose low situation occurred again and power was added to complete the go around. Ground officials inspected the gear for me on the next pass and a call was made to complete another round of manual gear extensions while flying toward our practice area. I slowed the aircraft to slightly above blue line; swung the nose around and still never got a complete set of green lights. Back at the airport another low pass was made and a decision to call safety officials was made. After arrival of the local fire department I made a soft field landing cut the mixtures as soon as landing was assured and held back on the yoke for what seemed to be eternity until the plane settled on the nose cone and brakes were applied switches shut down and a safe exit was made.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A BE58 pilot reported that the nose gear would not indicate safe before landing. After numerous attempts to get a safe indication electrically and with a manual extension a landing was made but the aircraft settled on the nose during roll out.
Narrative: I began to recognize my nose gear failure 5 NM out from the airport while working through my pre landing check list. The nosewheel light had not lit; yet I could feel and hear the gear were down. I checked the mirror on the left nacelle and saw the nosewheel was down; but possibly not as forward as I've remembered in the past. I made left traffic for Runway 9 and called three green on turn from base to final. Noticing once again my nosewheel was not lit I flipped the navigation lights on and off to check for a lighting issue. I used a soft field landing technique and felt an uneasy nose low attitude on roll out so I brought the power forward and departed making a call on the CTAF to anyone at the airport who could help with a visual from the ground to see the condition of my landing gear. I had flown the plane down to pick up my instructor and luckily enough he was monitoring the CTAF on his hand held radio. I made a trip around the pattern cycling the gear lever with the same result every time. I made a pass at about 100 FT AGL for my instructor to view the gear with the lever in the down position. After that pass we decided on a pass with the gear up for him to inspect if the gear was making a complete cycle. With that pass complete it was decided to head out toward our practice area for a manual gear extension. After multiple attempts to complete the manual extension I returned to airport for one more pass at 100 FT AGL then another landing attempt. On that attempt the nose low situation occurred again and power was added to complete the go around. Ground officials inspected the gear for me on the next pass and a call was made to complete another round of manual gear extensions while flying toward our practice area. I slowed the aircraft to slightly above blue line; swung the nose around and still never got a complete set of green lights. Back at the airport another low pass was made and a decision to call safety officials was made. After arrival of the local fire department I made a soft field landing cut the mixtures as soon as landing was assured and held back on the yoke for what seemed to be eternity until the plane settled on the nose cone and brakes were applied switches shut down and a safe exit was made.
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.