Shorts 360 first officer reports failure of the right landing gear to extend during approach. An eme...

Narrative:

Upon reaching 9 miles on final approach I asked the captain for gear down flaps 15 because we were high. When the gear came down we only got the green light for the left main and nose gear; the right main was not showing it lock into position. We decided to cycle the gear and with no luck pulled the emergency gear handle. At that point we advised the tower we would need to go around and that we had a bad indication of our gear. They asked us our souls on board and fuel; we had 2 souls and about an hour of fuel. They then offered to try to look and see our gear so we did a low pass. They said they could see our right main gear. At that point we did our go around and put the flaps up. We decided to do another low pass for the tower. Once again they told us the same thing. After that we went out to the north at 3;000 ft and did our emergency checklist and maneuvers to try to get the gear locked. After we did that we were still in contact with the tower and a coast guard helicopter offered to try to see our gear. We did another low pass but they were unable to see it because we were not close enough. At that point the decision was made to come in and land. We talked about the flap-less landing and how I should touch the left main and nose first and try to hold it off the right as long as possible. On downwind the captain pulled the right power lever to see if we would still get the gear horn; which we did. Once over the runway I pulled the power levers and got the horn again. I knew at that point our gear was not locked. We maintained directional control and came to a stop. Secured the engines and put the gear pins in the left and nose gear. The emergency crews were already there as they had been called for us.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Shorts 360 First Officer reports failure of the right landing gear to extend during approach. An emergency landing ensues with the right gear retracted; causing little damage due to the nature of the Shorts main landing gear.

Narrative: Upon reaching 9 miles on final approach I asked the Captain for gear down flaps 15 because we were high. When the gear came down we only got the green light for the left main and nose gear; the right main was not showing it lock into position. We decided to cycle the gear and with no luck pulled the emergency gear handle. At that point we advised the Tower we would need to go around and that we had a bad indication of our gear. They asked us our souls on board and fuel; we had 2 souls and about an hour of fuel. They then offered to try to look and see our gear so we did a low pass. They said they could see our right main gear. At that point we did our go around and put the flaps up. We decided to do another low pass for the Tower. Once again they told us the same thing. After that we went out to the north at 3;000 FT and did our emergency checklist and maneuvers to try to get the gear locked. After we did that we were still in contact with the Tower and a Coast Guard helicopter offered to try to see our gear. We did another low pass but they were unable to see it because we were not close enough. At that point the decision was made to come in and land. We talked about the flap-less landing and how I should touch the left main and nose first and try to hold it off the right as long as possible. On downwind the Captain pulled the right power lever to see if we would still get the gear horn; which we did. Once over the runway I pulled the power levers and got the horn again. I knew at that point our gear was not locked. We maintained directional control and came to a stop. Secured the engines and put the gear pins in the left and nose gear. The emergency crews were already there as they had been called for us.

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.

Attributes
ACN	921928
Time
Date	201012
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Shorts SD-360
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 135
Flight Phase	Final Approach
Route In Use	Direct Visual Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Main Gear
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 70 Flight Crew Total 1160 Flight Crew Type 800
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical

Shorts 360 first officer reports failure of the right landing gear to extend during approach. An emergency landing ensues with the right gear retracted; causing little damage due to the nature of the shorts main landing gear.