- Date
- March 6, 2026, 21:40 local (Mar 7, 2026, 04:40 UTC)
- Place
- Denver, CO · 6120
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N425MAFairchild SA227-AC
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Parties
- Ontic, Ontic Airworthiness Technical Director, Key Lime - Dir of Mx, FAA AVP-110
- Case key
- 202613
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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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
- N425MA
- Reported as
- Fairchild SA227-AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- AC-640
- Built
- 1986
- Airframe hours
- 38,175
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Key Lime Air
- Registered owner
- Cbg LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · February 23, 2026
- Departed
- KLBF · North Platte, NE
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- DEN · Denver Intl, runway 17L/35R, 12,000 × 150 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Stall warning system
N425MARegistered now · Fairchild SA227-ACAirframe modelFairchild SA227-ACEngine modelAiResearch TPE331 series
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
- Instrument (IMC) · Night
- Wind
- 360° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,800 ft broken
- Temperature
- 30 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.14 inHg
- Observed at
- KDEN, 1 nm away
- METAR
- SPECI KDEN 070434Z 36011KT 8SM FEW006 BKN048 M01/M03 A3014 RMK AO2 SNE33 P0000 T10111028 $=