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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC91IA046

1991-03-27 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, United States Airport · ANC None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N173RV

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-12IS

Year of manufacture

2025

Engine

ROTAX 912 IS (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20251230

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A125DD

Registrant of record

VANS AIRCRAFT INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Probable cause & findings

A JAMMED NOSE GEAR DUE TO INCORRECT INSTALLATION OF THE SHEAR PIN. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE INSUFFICIENTLY DEFINED MAINTENANCE PROCEDURE.

Factual narrative

THE CREW OF FOUR WERE ON A TRAINING FLIGHT AND WERE PREPARING TO PERFORM APPROACH TO LANDING STALLS. DURING THE MANEUVER, THEY NOTICED THE NOSE GEAR WOULD NOT EXTEND. UNABLE TO EXTEND THE NOSE GEAR, THEY LANDED WITH THE NOSE GEAR UP CAUSING MINOR DAMAGE TO THE AIRPLANE. SUBSEQUENT EXAMINATION REVEALED THAT THE RIVETS WHICH RETAIN THE CENTERING CAM SHEAR PINS WERE SHEARED. THE SHEAR PINS WERE NOT SHEARED. AN EXAMINATION BY MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, NAGOYA AIRPLANE WORKS, INDICATED THAT THE SHEAR PINS MAY HAVE BEEN INSTALLED IN REVERSE. THE OVERHAUL MANUAL ALSO CONTAINED AMBIGUOUS INFORMATION CONCERNING THE INFORMATION. THE GRAPHICAL DISPLAY SHOWED THE INSTALLATION INCORRECTLY, BUT THE TEXT EXPLAINED THE INSTALLATION CORRECTLY. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1991_ANC91IA046.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (stall, maintenance). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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