MIA90LA011 · Beech 58P
Beech 58P · Accident: airframe, component or system failure on approach
From an unrecorded airport to Lakeland Linder International Airport (LAL)
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA90LA011
- 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
- Accident
- 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
- General aviation
- 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
Beech 58P
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 58
- 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
- N94JP
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Lakeland Linder International Airport (LAL), Lakeland, FL
- 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 91: General Aviation
- 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
- Approach
- 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
- Airframe, component or system failure
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Emergency procedure, not understood
- Pilot in command › Gear down and locked, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Gear retraction, inadvertent
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Jackson, MS, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
AFTER BECOMING AIRBORNE, THE PLT REALIZED HE HAD FORGOTTEN A BRIEF CASE & ELECTED TO RTRN TO THE ARPT. HE EXTENDED THE GEAR TO LAND & NOTICED THERE WERE 3 SAFE INDCNS. HOWEVER, AS HE EXTENDED THE FLAPS, THERE WAS A TOTAL LOSS OF ELECTRICALPOWER. HE MADE A GO-AROUND & TURNED THE MANUAL LANDING GEAR EXTENSION HANDLE TO VERIFY THAT THE GEAR WAS EXTENDED. HOW- EVER, HE TURNED THE EXTENSION HANDLE TO THE RIGHT, INSTEAD OF COUNTERCLOCKWISE, AS WAS STATED IN THE OPERATOR'S MANUAL. CLOCKWISE MOVEMENT OF THE EXTENSION HANDLE WOULD HAVE STARTED RETRACTION OF THE GEAR. WITNESSES NOTED THE GEAR WAS ONLY PARTLY EXTENDED BEFORE THE FINAL APCH TO LAND. DURING THE LANDING, THE GEAR COLLAPSED & THE ACFT WAS DAMAGED. NO REASON WAS FOUND FOR THE LOSS OF ELECTRICAL POWER.
Probable cause
THE PILOT'S MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE LANDING GEAR EMERGENCY EXTENSION PROCEDURE, WHICH RESULTED IN HIS INADVERTENT PARTIAL RETRACTION OF THE GEAR AND FAILURE TO LAND WITH THE GEAR IN THE DOWN AND LOCKED POSITION. LOSS OF ELECTRICAL POWER WAS A FACTOR.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA90LA011
- Event ID
- 20001213X29656
- Case number
- MIA90LA011
- 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: b8e0bddee7b15e20f515bfed263cb10605a01b9c821cf9245f9900b7584e9a1c; retrieved 2026-09-23T07:04:46.909Z.