- Date
- January 20, 2025, 10:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Minneapolis, MN
- Injuries
- 6 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6NRRaytheon Hawker 800XP
- Defining event
- Approach: Sys/Comp malf/fail (non-power)
- 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 FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250120000789A
- Case key
- 199571
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 failure of the nose landing gear to extend for 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
After a cross-country flight, the flight crew configured the airplane for landing, but the nose landing gear did not extend. The flight crew attempted to trouble shoot the problem by cycling the landing gear several times, with no results. The flight crew also tried to lower the nose landing gear with the hydraulic hand pump, but that was not successful. The flight crew went through the pre-landing checklist one more time, but the nose landing gear still did not come down. After trying unsuccessfully to extend the nose landing gear, the flight crew decided to perform a landing with the nose landing gear still retracted and the main landing gear extended. The airplane touched down on the runway and a section of the fuselage just above the retracted nose landing gear sustained substantial damage. The pilot mentioned in his statement that the nose landing gear doors might have been frozen shut because the flight originated from an area of high moisture, and the landing gear was lowered in an area of very cold temperatures. This could not be proven and the manufacturer stated that they did not have any previous reports of the nose landing gear doors freezing shut with this model of airplane. After the accident, the landing gear was tested using both the handpump and low and high hydraulic pressure in the airplane systems. All landing gear extended and retracted normally and provided the appropriate landing gear configuration indications on the instrument panel. There were no mechanical anomalies with the landing gear system that would have precluded normal operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6NR
- Reported as
- Raytheon Hawker 800XP
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 258701
- Built
- 2004
- Engines
- Honeywell TFE-731-SER, 4,750 lbs thrust, turbo fanHoneywell TFE-731-SER, 4,750 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 30, 2024 · 4,949 hours before
- Departed
- FXE · Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Destination
- FCM · Flying Cloud, MN
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- MSP · Minneapolis-St Paul Intl/Wold-Chamberlain, runway 12R/30L, 10,000 × 200 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Angle of attack indicator, Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 54
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 5, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 14,211 total · 57 in this make and model · 13,354 as pilot in command · 103 in the last 90 days · 54 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Co-pilot
- Age
- 32
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 30, 2024
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 3,026 total · 56 in this make and model · 64 in the last 90 days · 43 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,200 ft broken
- Temperature
- -9 °F, dew point -18 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.51 inHg
- Observed at
- KMSP
- METAR
- KMSP 201653Z 31008KT 7SM -SN BKN022 M23/M28 A3051 RMK AO2 SNB03 SLP362 P0000 T12281278
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 6, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.5 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.