- Date
- December 11, 2024, 18:05 local (Dec 12, 2024, 00:05 UTC)
- Place
- Crystal, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4823FPiper PA-28R-200
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- 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
- 20241211019969A
- Case key
- 199422
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Probable cause
The malfunction of the landing gear system which resulted in a collapse of the main landing gear during the landing roll.
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 while on downwind, he lowered the landing gear lever; however, the landing gear position indicator lights did not illuminate. He cycled the landing gear lever several times with no change. The pilot noticed the sound was “less than normal” and that there was “less buffeting” when lowering the landing gear. He attempted to lock the landing gear in the down position by yawing the airplane to the left and right. The pilot flew the airplane past the air traffic control tower, and the controller verified that the airplane’s landing gear appeared to be extended. He then cycled the landing gear lever before landing. During the landing roll, the main landing gear collapsed. The airplane exited the left side of the runway, struck several runway and taxiway lights, and came to rest upright. The airplane sustained substantial damage to its left wing. The pilot did not perform the emergency gear extension procedure because the pilot’s operating handbook with the emergency procedures was in the baggage compartment at the time of the accident. Postaccident examination revealed that, when the airplane was lifted, the main landing gear extended and locked in the down position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4823F
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7635437
- Built
- 1976
- Airframe hours
- 5,342.05
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-C1C, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 10, 2024 · 216.58 hours before
- Departed
- LXT · Lee's Summit, MO
- Destination
- MIC · Minneapolis, MN
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- MIC · Crystal Airport, runway 32, 3,751 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic flight bag or handheld device, ADS-B, Auto-pilot
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
- 51
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 6, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 813.8 total · 377.3 in this make and model · 673.8 as pilot in command · 27.6 in the last 90 days · 10.5 in the last 30 days · 3.9 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 310° at 14 knots, gusting 27
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -11 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.16 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- KMIC
- METAR
- METAR KMIC 112353Z 31014G27KT 10SM FEW022 M18/M24 A3016 RMK AO2 PK WND 30027/2348 SLP234 60000 T11831244 11128 21183 51024=
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 20, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.2 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.