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To: B4Ranch

Sheared bolt on the right main causing it to fail up or down. It was just stuck mid-travel. Piper makes all their gears where the engine hydraulics keep the gear up. Should the engine fail or the airspeed drops to within 5KTS of stall speed, the gear drops on it's own. The only time this hereto perfect system becomes unperfect is when a mouse builds a large home inside your gear well. When the gear is attempted to be raised, the mouse house becomes a load inside a trash compactor. The result is bent metal.


72 posted on 03/26/2006 11:18:34 AM PST by blackdog (Forever re-timing flap tuckers. Hell is maintaining what stupid engineers sold to even dumber execs)
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To: blackdog

Absolutely no criticism intended here just searching for information because I fly quite a bit in private aircraft.

So is this a case of insufficent preflight inspection by the pilot or was the mouse house completely hidden from exterior view?


79 posted on 03/26/2006 11:35:32 AM PST by B4Ranch (Immigration Control and Border Security -The jobs George W. Bush doesn't want to do.)
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