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Today I had my first real emergency in my Ovation in 14 years or so of flying it (2000 Ovation II, with 310 HP upgrade). In short, coming in for a landing I put the gear down -- heard an "unusual clunk" -- and then the Gear Unsafe warning started blinking. Long story short, the FBO confirmed that the gear was down during a fly-by, the green "thing" inbetween the seats appeared to be aligned (gear-down), but not illuminated (since the gear was unsafe). I landed with the firetruck ready to role, but the landing was thankfully uneventful. My questions: (1) What happened? I am attaching three pictures of a broken "tube"/rode under the plane -- looks like it just sheared off. I am attaching pictures of the tube that broke, in the center underneath the plane. (2) What specific part is that in the Parts Catalogue? It looks like part of the Retraction System - Landing Gear; but it happened during extension of the gear. (3) Any ideas what can cause this? I hope the shop at the airport at FNL can fix this before I need to return home...As a (BIG!) side note: They were incredibly busy but started to look at it immediately. General aviation will just die when businesses and their kind owners finally retire without replacement.....thumb.png.516122c49f4478e44879a6da71a7fad8.png)
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