CEN20LA084 · Beech 200 B200
Beech 200 B200 · Accident: landing gear collapse
From North Little Rock Municipal Airport (ORK) to Spirit of St Louis Airport (SUS)
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Event
- NTSB case
- CEN20LA084
- 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
- Unknown
- 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 200 B200
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 200
- 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
- N405PT
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From North Little Rock Municipal Airport (ORK), North Little Rock, ARTo Spirit of St Louis Airport (SUS), St Louis, MO
- Aircraft age
- About 39 years (built 1981)
- 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
- Defining eventThe 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
- Landing gear collapse
- 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
- Aircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability
- Aircraft › Aircraft systems
- Personnel issues › Task performance
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The pilot departed on a cross-country flight; during departure, the pilot heard the main landing gear retract but the main landing gear indication remained red, indicating the gear were in transit. During the approach to the destination airport, the pilot heard the main landing gear extend but did not see three green landing gear indications. The pilot visually confirmed the main landing gear were extended, and the controller confirmed during a low pass that all three landing gear were extended. The pilot completed the emergency landing gear extension procedure and felt resistance on the handle, consistent with the landing gear being extended, so he believed that there was a wiring issue with the landing gear indicator. The pilot reported that he attempted to slow the airplane as much as possible before touching down and that the landing seemed normal until the airplane veered hard to the left. The pilot attempted to correct with the application of right rudder and right brake; however, the airplane departed the runway, resulting in substantial damage to the fuselage, including the collapse of all three landing gear. Skid marks and propeller strike indications on the runway were consistent with the nose landing gear collapsing before departing the runway surface. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that the nose landing gear upper drag brace, the nose landing gear actuator, and the nose landing gear steering links were all fractured during the accident sequence. However, the damage to the nose landing gear assembly precluded further testing, and investigators were not able to determine which component failed first, so the reason for the loss of control on landing and subsequent gear collapse could not be determined from the available information.
Probable cause
The pilot’s loss of directional control and the subsequent nose landing gear collapse of for undetermined reasons.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN20LA084
- Event ID
- 20200206X91343
- Case number
- CEN20LA084
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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, cause areas. 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: 2c765f83ca4e68431132b323929a09da835e2cf8f7b3dc14cedbb819da66322e; retrieved 2026-09-16T11:03:41.484Z.