- Date
- January 1, 2024, 14:40 local (20:40 UTC)
- Place
- Mansfield, LA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9729LBeech C23
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: 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
- FAA report
- 20240101000419A
- Case key
- 193582
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The nose landing gear collapse and postimpact fire due to undetermined reasons.
Findings · 2
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 she conducted a normal, full flap landing to the runway. After touchdown, the airplane’s nose landing gear collapsed, and a postimpact fire ensued after the airplane skidded to a stop. The airplane was destroyed by the postimpact fire which precluded a postaccident examination of the nose landing gear system. An airport surveillance video appeared to show the airplane bounce and porpoise several times before the airplane came to rest. Due to the poor quality of the surveillance video and lack of available evidence, the reason for the nose landing gear collapse and postimpact fire during landing sequence could not be determined.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9729L
- Reported as
- Beech C23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M-1356
- Airframe hours
- 1,640
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-AUG, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 1, 2023
- Departed
- DTN · Shreveport, LA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 3F3 · C E 'Rusty' Williams, runway 36, 5,005 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Electronic flight bag or handheld device
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
- 38
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Unknown
- Last flight review
- August 21, 2023
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 200 total · 15 in this make and model · 25 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 8, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 51.6 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.