Conquest Airlines Flight 1041
Fairchild SA227-AC · Incident: gear collapsed during landing
From Austin Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW94IA032
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Fairchild SA227-AC
- Aircraft type
- Fairchild SA227
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N688NE
- Operator
- Conquest Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Austin Bergstrom International Airport (AUS), Austin, TXTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing · flare/touchdown
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Gear collapsed
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
- Hydraulic system, pump › Failure, partial
- Reason for occurrence undetermined
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
ON FINAL APPROACH, THE LANDING GEAR WAS EXTENDED, CHECKED DOWN AND LOCKED, AND THREE GREEN LIGHTS WERE NOTED. THIS WAS CORROBORATED BY THE COCKPIT VOICE RECORDER. WHEN THE AIRPLANE TOUCHED DOWN, THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR EITHER COLLAPSED OR RETRACTED. THE LANDING GEAR ACTUATOR RODS, ROD ENDS, DOWN LOCK ROLLERS, AND CAMS WERE UNDAMAGED. DURING POST-INCIDENT EXAMINATION, THE HYDRAULIC POWER PACK MADE A LOUD NOISE AND HYDRAULIC PRESSURE FLUCTUATED BETWEEN 500 AND 1,200 PSI. NO DISCREPANCIES WERE NOTED WHEN THE HYDRAULIC POWER PACK WAS FUNCTIONALLY TESTED AND INTERNALLY INSPECTED. PROCEDURAL ERRORS WERE MADE THAT MIGHT HAVE INVALIDATED THE TEST RESULTS.
Probable cause
THE PARTIAL FAILURE OF THE HYDRAULIC PUMP (POWER PACK).
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW94IA032
- Event ID
- 20001211X13732
- Case number
- FTW94IA032
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 4397c540e3cbe1eece21d1318c3a428ec7295619454e954705a0136913fe93b6; retrieved 2026-09-18T18:26:12.962Z.