Mesa Air Shuttle Beech C-99 incident
Beech C-99 · Incident: main gear collapsed during landing
From Albuquerque International Sunport (ABQ) to Clovis Municipal Airport (CVN)
Event
- NTSB case
- DEN87IA031
- 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
Beech C-99
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft C-99
- 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
- N7212P
- Operator
- Mesa Air Shuttle
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Albuquerque International Sunport (ABQ), Albuquerque, NMTo Clovis Municipal Airport (CVN), Clovis, NM
- 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 · 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
- Main 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
- Landing gear, gear locking mechanism › Failure, total
- Landing gear, normal retraction/extension assembly › Worn
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Albuquerque, NM, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
MESA AIRLINE FLT 114 WAS ON A SCHEDULED FLT FROM ALBUQUERQUE TO CLOVIS, NM. UPON TOUCHDOWN AT CLOVIS, THE LEFT LANDING GEAR BEGAN TO COLLAPSE AND A GO-AROUND WAS SUCCESSFUL. THE CREW ELECTED TO RETURN TO ALBUQUERQUE WHERE EMERG EQUIPMENT COULD STAND BY. AFTER TOUCHDOWN, WHILE STILL ON THE LANDING ROLL, THE LEFT GEAR COLLAPSED. THE ACFT CAME TO A STOP AND ALL OCCUPANTS OF THE ACFT DEPLANED SUCCESSFULLY.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DEN87IA031
- Event ID
- 20001213X35343
- Case number
- DEN87IA031
- 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 1986-12-18.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 923e08af921b9d975f233b280e91c51d7e8941c68ae56f50530c8f2910922663; retrieved 2026-09-18T19:46:02.355Z.