- Date
- August 26, 2025, 17:35 local (22:35 UTC)
- Place
- Maryville, MO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1668TCessna 414
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 5, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20250826021359A
- Case key
- 202342
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Probable cause
The left landing gear collapsed on landing rollout due to a fractured retract bellcrank on the left landing gear lower fork assembly.
Findings · 1
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 stated that during landing rollout, he felt the airplane wobble. When he applied the brakes, the left main landing gear collapsed. The airplane veered left off the runway and went down a grassy embankment where it came to rest. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left aileron and a left outboard wing spar. A postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that the retract bellcrank on the left landing gear lower fork assembly fractured. The pilot reported that the landing gear was serviced during an annual inspection and the accident flight was the third flight after the landing gear was serviced.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1668T
- Reported as
- Cessna 414
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 414-0461
- Built
- 1973
- Airframe hours
- 4,718
- Engines
- Continental IO520, 335 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental IO520, 335 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kevu Aviators LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 25, 2025 · 3 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- EVU · Northwest Missouri Regional, runway 32, 4,600 × 75 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Auto-pilot, 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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 48
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 12, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,067 total · 291 in this make and model · 985 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.24 inHg
- Observed at
- KEVU
- METAR
- KEVU 262215Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM SCT048 OVC080 25/13 A3024
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 5, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 8.0 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.