Envoy E135 at New York on Oct 10th 2018, disobedient gear

Last Update: October 11, 2018 / 21:32:11 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Oct 10, 2018

Classification
Incident

Airline
Envoy Air

Flight number
MQ-3940

Departure
New York JFK, United States

Destination
Montreal, Canada

Aircraft Registration
N855AE

Aircraft Type
Embraer ERJ-135

ICAO Type Designator
E135

An Envoy Embraer ERJ-135, registration N855AE performing flight MQ-3940 from New York JFK,NY (USA) to Montreal,QC (Canada) with 47 people on board, was climbing out of JFK's runway 22R when the crew stopped the climb at 14,000 feet reporting they had disagreeing gear indications, both systems were showing differently whether the gear was up or down, they could feel the gear cycling up and down. The crew declared emergency, worked the related checklists and decided to return to JFK requesting runway 22R. ATC offered a low pass, the crew queried whether that would make any sense given the low ceiling, ATC agreed due to 200 feet AGL cloud ceiling. Nonetheless, the crew decided to perform a low approach to runway 22R about 70 minutes after departure requesting tower to check the right main gear, they still had conflicting indications on their two indication systems. Tower advised they tried to notice anything, they didn't notice anything abnormal but they didn't see it well. The aircraft landed safely on JFK's runway 22R about 20 minutes after the low approach and about 90 minutes after departure.

A replacement Embraer ERJ-135 registration N823AE reached Montreal with a delay of 5:40 hours.



Metars:
KJFK 102116Z 15010KT 10SM BKN006 BKN023 BKN070 23/23 A3000 RMK AO2 T02330228 $=
KJFK 102051Z 15009KT 10SM SCT007 BKN070 23/23 A3001 RMK AO2 SLP161 SCT V BKN T02330228 58021 $=
KJFK 101957Z 16006KT 10SM SCT004 BKN050 BKN070 24/23 A3003 RMK AO2 T02390228 $=
KJFK 101951Z 16007KT 2 1/2SM BR BKN004 BKN050 BKN070 24/23 A3003 RMK AO2 SFC VIS 6 SLP170 T02390228 $=
KJFK 101942Z 17006KT 2 1/2SM BR BKN004 BKN050 BKN070 23/23 A3004 RMK AO2 SFC VIS 4 T02330228 $=
KJFK 101851Z 16009KT 5SM BR BKN004 BKN023 BKN060 23/22 A3005 RMK AO2 SLP175 T02330222 $=
KJFK 101847Z 17010KT 5SM BR BKN004 BKN023 BKN060 23/22 A3005 RMK AO2 $=
KJFK 101751Z 17005KT 8SM FEW008 SCT025 SCT065 24/22 A3007 RMK AO2 SLP182 T02390222 10239 20206 58027 $=
KJFK 101723Z VRB05KT 3SM BR SCT006 SCT022 SCT065 SCT250 23/22 A3009 RMK AO2 SFC VIS 6 T02330217 $=
KJFK 101707Z 20004KT 2SM BR BKN005 BKN022 22/22 A3010 RMK AO2 SFC VIS 6 T02220222 $=
KJFK 101651Z 19003KT 1 1/2SM BR OVC005 22/22 A3011 RMK AO2 SFC VIS 5 SLP195 CIG 003V007 T02170217 $=
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Oct 10, 2018

Classification
Incident

Airline
Envoy Air

Flight number
MQ-3940

Departure
New York JFK, United States

Destination
Montreal, Canada

Aircraft Registration
N855AE

Aircraft Type
Embraer ERJ-135

ICAO Type Designator
E135

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