FTW84LA025 · Beech C24R
Beech C24R · Accident: airframe, component or system failure en route
From Drake Field (FYV) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW84LA025
- 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 C24R
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 24
- 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
- N23PS
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Drake Field (FYV), Fayetteville, ARTo 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 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
- En route · cruise
- 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 › Diverted attention
- Pilot in command › Emergency procedure, improper
- Pilot in command › Fuel system, improper use of
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT STATED THAT ABOUT 15 MIN AFTER TAKEOFF, THE RADIO & NAVIGATION EQUPMENT QUIT WORKING. HE DECIDED TO RETURN TO THE ARPT TO LAND. HOWEVER, WHEN HE TRIED TO EXTEND THE GEAR, HE COULD NOT GET A SAFE GEAR DOWN INDICATION. THERE WAS HEAVY TRAFFIC, SO HE DEPARTED THE TRAFFIC PATTERN TO EXTEND THE GEAR. HE EXTENDED THE LANDING GEAR ACCORDING TO INSTRUCTIONS IN HIS ACFT HANDBOOK. HE STATED THAT AS SOON AS THE GEAR WAS EXTENDED, THE ENG LOST POWER. THE PLT TRIEDTO GLIDE THE ACFT TO A LARGE FIELD FOR LANDING, BUT WAS UNABLE TO REACH IT. HE SELECTED A SMALLER FIELD & TRIED TO MAKE SHORT FIELD APCH, BUT THE FLAPS WOULD NOT EXTEND. BEFORE THE PLT COULD STOP THE ACFT, IT COLLIDED WITH A FENCE & A FEW SMALL TREES. DURING AN EXAM OF THE ACFT, ALL ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS OPERATED NORMALLY & FUEL WAS FOUND IN THE FUEL TANKS. THE ENG WAS THEN STARTED & IT OPERATED NORMALLY.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW84LA025
- Event ID
- 20001214X44848
- Case number
- FTW84LA025
- 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: 009a383de73dfed0c056b72ae02a933f4fd7d11719aa8d25996371d75dc0f059; retrieved 2026-09-23T21:13:07.603Z.