MKC83LA183 · Beech M35
Airways Service Beech M35 · Accident: gear collapsed during takeoff
From an unrecorded airport to Rock County Airport (RBE)
Event
- NTSB case
- MKC83LA183
- 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 M35
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 35
- 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
- N555M
- Operator
- Airways Service
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Rock County Airport (RBE), Bassett, NE
- 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
- Takeoff · roll/run
- 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 · Estimated position: the centre of Sioux City, IA, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT STATED THAT THE LANDING GEAR SWITCH WAS DOWN WHEN HE STARTED THA TAKEOFF ROLL. WHEN THE ACFT HAD ACCELERATED TO APRX 50 MPH DURING THE TAKEOFF ROLL, THE LANDING GEAR RETRACTED/COLLAPSED, NOSE WHEEL FIRST, FOLLOWED BY THE MAIN GEAR. THE PLT STATED THAT AFTER THE ACFT SLID TO A STOP, HE MOVED THE LANDING GEAR SWITCH FROM THE 'DOWN' TO THE 'UP' POSITION BEFORE HE DEPARTED THE ACFT. MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL WHO WERE AT THE ACFT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE MISHAP, CONFIRMED THAT THE LANDING GEAR SWITCH WAS IN THE 'UP' POSITION WHEN THEY ARRIVED. AN INSPECTION OF THE LANDING GEAR & GEAR WARNING SYSTEMS REVEALED NO EVIDENCE OF A PRE-ACCIDENT MALFUNCTION. THE GEAR WARNING HORN SOUNDED WHEN CHECKED WITH THE SQUAT SWITCH OPEN. THE PLT STATED THAT HE DID NOT HEAR A HORN DURING THE TAKEOFF SEQUENCE. ALSO, THE PLT NOTED THAT THE FLAP SWITCH WAS IN THE 'DOWN' POSITION, WHEN HE ARRIVED AT THE ACFT, BUT THE FLAPS WERE IN THE RETRACTED POSITION. HE BELIEVED SOMEONE HAD PUT THE FLAP SWITCH DOWN AFTER THE MASTER SWITCH WAS OFF.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MKC83LA183
- Event ID
- 20001214X44282
- Case number
- MKC83LA183
- 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: e265f8923a1524c9980eb66918727141caf2c44cf7910ce02d26644b2feac002; retrieved 2026-09-23T21:35:23.166Z.