An iai-1125 flight crew declared and emergency and landed safely on the long runway of a diversion a...

Narrative:

While retracting the landing gear after takeoff the cas notified us that we had major hydraulic failures. The landing gear retracted normally. As we ran our checklists we determined we needed over 10;000 ft of runway to stop the aircraft due to significantly reduced braking. We also had no nose wheel steering; no pneumatic brakes and had to use the alternate gear extension. Then the aircraft starting making screeching noises; due to past experience I know this problem has the potential to progress from a hydraulic problem to a generator/electrical problem; as well. Because I did not want to deal with no generators and no hydraulics at night; the screeching noises and the long runway required we elected to divert to another airport which has a 12;000 ft runway and was in our immediate vicinity; as well. We took some time to run our checklists; get the gear down and solidify our game plan. The subsequent landing was uneventful. Crash crews met us and we exited the aircraft to see a thin film of hydraulic fluid down the entire tail cone of the aircraft. Aircraft was tugged to the ramp uneventfully.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An IAI-1125 flight crew declared and emergency and landed safely on the long runway of a diversion airport following the loss of hydraulics during landing gear retraction after takeoff.

Narrative: While retracting the landing gear after takeoff the CAS notified us that we had major hydraulic failures. The landing gear retracted normally. As we ran our checklists we determined we needed over 10;000 FT of runway to stop the aircraft due to significantly reduced braking. We also had no nose wheel steering; no pneumatic brakes and had to use the alternate gear extension. Then the aircraft starting making screeching noises; due to past experience I know this problem has the potential to progress from a hydraulic problem to a generator/electrical problem; as well. Because I did not want to deal with no generators AND no hydraulics at night; the screeching noises and the long runway required we elected to divert to another airport which has a 12;000 FT runway and was in our immediate vicinity; as well. We took some time to run our checklists; get the gear down and solidify our game plan. The subsequent landing was uneventful. Crash crews met us and we exited the aircraft to see a thin film of hydraulic fluid down the entire tail cone of the aircraft. Aircraft was tugged to the ramp uneventfully.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	961286
Time
Date	201107
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	IAI1125 (Astra)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Initial Climb
Route In Use	Vectors
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Hydraulic System
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 85 Flight Crew Total 4300 Flight Crew Type 1200
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical

An iai-1125 flight crew declared and emergency and landed safely on the long runway of a diversion airport following the loss of hydraulics during landing gear retraction after takeoff.