A crj-200 flight crew performed the appropriate QRH procedures and returned to their departure airpo...

Narrative:

After takeoff the nose wheel failed to retract; it continued to cycle until a gear disagree warning displayed. We complied with the QRH and returned to our departure airport. The gear was down and indicated locked so we took delay vectors to burn fuel. Because we had a gear down and lock indication when we put the gear down we elected not to declare an emergency. We did end up landing approximately 500 pounds overweight for which I exercised my emergency authority. Landing was safer than doing a go around.the problem is the aircraft had been written up multiple times in the past for the same problem. The mechanics wanted to adjust the nose proximity sensor again. I told them this was a recurring problem and entered in the maintenance log that it was a repeat write up.our -200 fleet is not maintained properly!!!! Landing gear failures should not happen multiple times. I suggest we don't fly aircraft that are not maintained properly.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A CRJ-200 flight crew performed the appropriate QRH procedures and returned to their departure airport when the nose gear failed to retract. The identical problem had been written up multiple times previously with no successful maintenance action performed.

Narrative: After takeoff the nose wheel failed to retract; it continued to cycle until a gear disagree warning displayed. We complied with the QRH and returned to our departure airport. The gear was down and indicated locked so we took delay vectors to burn fuel. Because we had a gear down and lock indication when we put the gear down we elected not to declare an emergency. We did end up landing approximately 500 LBS overweight for which I exercised my emergency authority. Landing was safer than doing a go around.The problem is the aircraft had been written up multiple times in the past for the same problem. The mechanics wanted to adjust the nose proximity sensor again. I told them this was a recurring problem and entered in the maintenance log that it was a repeat write up.Our -200 fleet is not maintained properly!!!! Landing gear failures should not happen multiple times. I suggest we don't fly aircraft that are not maintained properly.

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	981217
Time
Date	201111
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
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	Gear Extend/Retract Mechanism
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical

A crj-200 flight crew performed the appropriate QRH procedures and returned to their departure airport when the nose gear failed to retract. The identical problem had been written up multiple times previously with no successful maintenance action performed.