39.6375° N, 79.9469° WPlaced by OpenAirDocs: center of Morgantown, WV, within about 6 miles.Open in the map
Date
February 22, 1989 · 16:20 local
Place
Morgantown, WV
Airport
Morgantown Municipal-Walter L Bill
Phase of flight
Forced/Precautionary Landing
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Operator
BYUA
Aircraft
N200LV
Reported as
Beech B200
People aboard
5
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
5,000 total300 in this make and model110 in the last 90 days
From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Smoke in cockpit after gear retracted. Returned. Lowered gear manually. Landing gear motor had failed.
As the FAA filed it
SMOKE IN COCKPIT AFTER GEAR RETRACTED. RETURNED. LOWERED GEAR MANUALLY. LANDING GEAR MOTOR HAD FAILED.