Skip to content

MKC90LA039

1989-12-13 · CAPE GIRARDEAU, Missouri, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Airport CGI

N525GT has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (CESSNA 525A, built 2002), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Probable cause & findings

AN INOPERATIVE LANDING GEAR EXTENSION SYSTEM DUE TO FAILURE OF AN ELECTRIC MOTOR AND A MISPLACED EMERGENCY CRANK HANDLE.

Factual narrative

THE PILOT SAID THAT WHEN HE DEPARTED ON A PERSONAL CROSS COUNTRY TRIP, THE LANDING GEAR FAILED TO RETRACT COMPLETELY. HE CONTINUED HIS TRIP. AFTER ARRIVING AT HIS DESTINATION, HE WAS UNABLE TO GET A SAFE GEAR INDICATION AND WAS UNABLE TO LOWER THE GEAR BY EMERGENCY PROCEDURES. LOW PASSES PAST THE TOWER CONFIRMED ALL THREE WHEELS WERE DOWN, BUT THE NOSE GEAR APPEARED NOT TO BE IN POSITION. A LANDING WAS MADE. DURING THE ROLL-OUT, ALL THREE GEAR LEGS COLLAPSED. A POST- ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION REVEALED THE GEAR MOTOR WAS BURNED OUT AND THE LANDING GEAR EMERGENCY PUMP WAS INOPERATIVE DUE TO A MISPLACED CRANK HANDLE. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1989_MKC90LA039.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Search this event elsewhere

External sources are reported, not agency: signal that something happened, not fact about what happened.

Related research

Matched on aircraft type. All research papers