Raytheon 390 Premier I, Blackbushe Airport, Hampshire, UK, April 7, 2004– According to the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch report, the instrument-rated pilot of Premier N200PR was unable to raise the landing gear after takeoff from Humberside Airport. He tried unsuccessfully to recycle the gear and noticed lift dump and antiskid systems failure indications. He landed at Farnborough to discuss the problem with an engineer from the aircraft’s maintenance organization. There were no obvious problems, but the engineer, aware of a history of lift-dump system problems with the aircraft type, suggested that the aircraft be ferried to Blackbushe, the maintenance base, for further investigation. The pilot did not attempt to raise the gear again. On landing at Blackbushe, the aircraft left the runway, stuck a series of obstructions and was destroyed. The sole-occupant pilot was not injured.
The support bracket for the right main landing gear weight-on-wheels (WOW) switch was found to have failed before the crash, causing the failure indications the pilot reported.
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