FTW90LA028 · Beech 95-A55
Pegasus Flight Center Beech 95-A55 · Accident: gear collapsed during landing
From Mineral Wells Regional Airport (MWL) to Mineral Wells Regional Airport (MWL)
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW90LA028
- 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 95-A55
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 55
- 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
- N422K
- Operator
- Pegasus Flight Center
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Mineral Wells Regional Airport (MWL)To Mineral Wells Regional Airport (MWL)
- 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
- Landing · landing roll
- 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
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Reason for occurrence undetermined
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE INSTRUCTOR PILOT AND THE DUAL STUDENT STATED THAT THE NOSE GEAR AND THEN THE MAIN GEAR COLLAPSED AFTER THE AIRPLANE TOUCHED DOWN ON ITS GEAR, WITH THE GREEN (GEAR DOWN AND LOCKED) LIGHT ON. THERE WAS EVIDENCE THAT THE GEAR WAS UP AND LOCKED WHEN THE AIRPLANE TOUCHED DOWN ON THE RUNWAY. WHEN CHECKED, ONE OF THE LNDG GEAR CIRCUIT BREAKERS (FOR THE DYNAMIC BRAKE RELAY) WOULD 'POP.' THE PURPOSE OF THE DYNAMIC BRAKE RELAY WAS TO KEEP THE LANDING GEAR MOTOR FROM OVERRUNNING & JAMMING IN THE UP OR DOWN POSITION. THE GEAR EXTENSION/RETRACTION SYSTEM (INCLUDING THE INDICATOR LIGHTS & WARNING HORN) OPERATED NORMALLY. ALSO, THE UP/DOWN LOCK POSIITON APPEARED TO BE CORRECT, NO PART FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION WAS FOUND THAT WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN THE ACDNT.
Probable cause
THE LANDING GEAR WAS EITHER NOT FULLY EXTENDED DURING THE LANDING OR IT RETRACTED DURING THE LANDING ROLL FOR AN UNDETERMINED REASON.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW90LA028
- Event ID
- 20001213X29801
- Case number
- FTW90LA028
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1989-11-16.
- API snapshot SHA-256: cfc367d892bce63974d75f6a23456cf3935488bf94ecd468ee2854c96254577c; retrieved 2026-09-23T06:59:00.990Z.