Alert Extracted From:
AC No. 43-16A
Alert No. 316
November 2004

Cessna; Model 525A; Broken Brake Line; ATA 3240

This aircraft was on a ferry flight with the landing gear locked in the down position due to a damaged landing gear door. Upon landing, the aircraft had no brakes and hydraulic fluid was streaming from the left wheel well.

An inspection revealed the hard brake line (P/N 6317013-39) in the left wheel well had broken in half.

The submitter states this is the second occurrence of this kind of failure on this model aircraft.

Part total time: 1,281.9 hours.