Beechcraft HAWKER 800XP N6NR

Summary

On 20 January 2025 at about 16:45 local time, a Beechcraft HAWKER 800XP registered N6NR was involved in an accident near Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. 6 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

20 January 2025 at 16:45

Classification

Accident

Location

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Nearest airport

Minneapolis-St Paul Intl/Wold- (MSP)

Coordinates

44.8820, -93.2218

Aircraft

Beechcraft HAWKER 800XP

Registration

N6NR

Category

Airplane

Year built

2004

Engines

2

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Fort Lauderdale → Flying Cloud

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CEN25LA083

Nobody was injured.

The failure of the nose landing gear to extend for undetermined reasons.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

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.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.