The nose landing gear was trailing about 20° to 30° below the horizontal retracted position.Īt 0650, GGN7212 entered a holding pattern east of the airport at 8000 feet ASL. The personnel in the tower observed that the nose landing gear was not in the fully extended position. At 0640, they performed a flyby of the control tower.

They observed the same indication as before. The flight crew requested radar vectors in order to perform the appropriate checklist and to cycle the landing gear. The in-transit light in the landing gear handle was extinguished ( Figure 1). When the landing gear extension sequence stopped, the flight crew observed 1 green down indicator light for each of the main landing gears, but no green indicator light for the nose landing gear. When the landing gear began to extend, a grinding, banging noise was audible. The flight progressed normally into CYYC until 0610, when the flight crew selected the landing gear down.

GGN7212 departed CYQL at 0531 Footnote 1 and climbed to the flight-planned altitude of 11 000 feet above sea level (ASL). The first officer was the pilot flying and occupied the right-hand seat the captain was the pilot not flying and occupied the left-hand seat. The flight was operated using a Beechcraft 1900D, registration C‑GORF, with 15 passengers (including 1 infant) and 2 pilots on board. 1.0 Factual information 1.1 History of the flightĪir Georgian Limited (Air Georgian) flight 7212 (GGN7212) was a scheduled Air Canada Express flight from Lethbridge Airport (CYQL), Alberta, to Calgary International Airport (CYYC), Alberta, on 12 July 2016. Le présent rapport est également disponible en français. No fire occurred, and there were no injuries. The aircraft landed at 0720 Mountain Daylight Time, during daylight hours, with the nose gear in a partially extended position. The flight circled east of Calgary for about an hour while the pilots attempted to rectify the problem. When the landing gear was selected down for the approach into Calgary, the flight crew observed that there was no gear-safe indication for the nose landing gear. On 12 July 2016, an Air Georgian Limited Beechcraft 1900D (serial number UE-330, registration C-GORF) was operating as Air Canada Express flight GGN7212 from Lethbridge Airport, Alberta, to Calgary International Airport, Alberta, with 2 crew members and 15 passengers on board.

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