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SKYbrary Aviation Safety Hawker Beechcraft Nose Gear Failure A Hawker Beechcraft on a business flight landed safely at Toowoomba Airport in Queensland Australia after the pilots became aware of a nose gear failure shortly after takeoff. As the pilots retracted the landing gear after taking off from Hervey Bay in Queensland the pilots heard a loud bang followed by the illumination of a red warning light in the cockpit, indicating a fault with the front landing gear. The pilots attempted to lower and retract the gear to fix the problem but the warning lights remained illuminated. During the landing the aircraft’s nose impacted the runway causing moderate damage to the underside bodywork. A subsequent investigation determined that an unknown pre-existing fault on the front nose gear had, under stress, caused a separation between the forward retract rod assembly and the plunger assembly.

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