- Date
- June 5, 2022, 18:52 local (23:52 UTC)
- Place
- Mesquite, TX
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9475YBeech 35
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA North Texas FSDO
- FAA report
- 20220605022189A
- Case key
- 105287
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Probable cause
A collapse of the airplane’s landing gear during the landing roll for reasons that could not be determined based on the available information.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that he extended the landing gear prior to the landing and observed that the gear down light was illuminated. The pilot described the touchdown as “soft.” However, during the roll out, the nose gear collapsed followed by the left main gear and the right main gear. The airplane came to rest on the underside of the fuselage on the runway. The pilot shutdown the airplane and the occupants egressed from the airplane without further incident. The air traffic control tower controller observed the airplane during the landing roll and reported that the airplane’s landing gear was down. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the underside of the fuselage. Due to the damage sustained to the landing gear system gear box and swing doors components, a postaccident functional test of the electric gear system could not be performed. The landing gear was able to be extended manually.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9475Y
- Reported as
- Beech 35 (A33)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CD-296
- Built
- 1961
- Airframe hours
- 6,387.76
- Engine
- Continental Motors I0-470-J, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 18, 2022
- Departed
- DWH · Houston, TX
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- HQZ · Mesquite Metro, runway 18, 6,000 × 100 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Angle of attack indicator, Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display, Handheld GPS, Onboard weather
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 44
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 24, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 223 total · 127 in this make and model · 223 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 12 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.69 inHg
- Observed at
- KHQZ
- METAR
- KHQZ 052250Z 09012G20KT 10SM BKN050 BKN055 27/18 A2969
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 7, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 49.2 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.