Small Aircraft
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 27; Flight Crew Total 307; Flight Crew Type 25
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft
We were going over simulated single engine failure as well as a practice ILS approach circling [to a different runway]. As we turned base we lowered the gear. The instructor pilot [and I] verified we had three green lights showing and I verbally said out loud; 'three green; gear down'. We continued our descent; flare and the Main Landing Gear touched down. Shortly after we lowered the nose; expecting to do a touch and go; but when the nose lowered it dropped straight to the ground. When services came out to help us remove the aircraft from the runway; we tried raising the nose by applying weight to the back to see if the nose gear would swing but it did not. The aircraft still showed that there were three green lights. We believe there was a mechanical failure somehow with the nose landing gear mechanism which caused us to land abruptly on our nose.
Tecnam P2006T student pilot reported the nose gear failed on landing even though they had three green lights.