- Date
- March 16, 2025, 17:41 local (23:41 UTC)
- Place
- Engelwood, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7987RBeech V35
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20250316003019A
- Case key
- 199864
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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Preliminary report
What NTSB knew early in the investigation. It may change in the final report.
On March 16, 2025, at 1741 mountain daylight time, a Beech V35 airplane, N7987R, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Englewood, Colorado. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot noticed an alternator caution light and corresponding indication on his primary flight display (PFD) while enroute to his destination. He performed electrical load shedding procedures and arrived at his destination with enough remaining battery power to maintain radio communications and extend the landing gear and flaps. The pilot reported that the landing was normal in all respects, to include the gear indicator light, until the right main landing gear collapsed followed by the collapse of the front and then the left main landing gear. The airplane departed the runway and impacted a taxiway sign and taxi light, resulting in substantial damage to the right wing. Security camera video was obtained that showed the landing gear were extended before touchdown and the initial landing roll appeared normal before the landing gear collapse. The airplane was retained for further examination.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7987R
- Reported as
- Beech V35 (A)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-8975
- Built
- 1969
- Airframe hours
- 9,230
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Hopeful Monster LLC
- Registered owner
- Hopeful Monster LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 2024
- Departed
- KBFI · Seattle, WA
- Destination
- KAPA · Engelwood, CO
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- APA · Centennial Airport, runway 35L, 7,001 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system
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.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 9 knots, gusting 23
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 22,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 10 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.88 inHg
- Observed at
- KAPA
- METAR
- KAPA 162353Z 29009G23KT 270V340 10SM FEW070 FEW160 BKN220 16/M12 A2988 RMK AO2 PK WND 28030/2333 SLP100 ACSL DSNT W T01611117 10167 20089 53001
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.