Cessna 414 accident near Maryville, Missouri, August 26, 2025
On August 26, 2025 at about 10:35 pm local time, a 1973 Cessna 414, registered N1668T, was substantially damaged in an accident during landing (landing roll) near Maryville, Missouri (Northwest Missouri Regional airport). It was a personal flight under general aviation rules (Part 91). No one was hurt; 2 people were on board or involved. The weather was visual conditions (good weather).
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The NTSB's probable cause their words, unchanged
The left landing gear collapsed on landing rollout due to a fractured retract bellcrank on the left landing gear lower fork assembly.
Source: NTSB aviation accident database, copy made October 4, 2026. Docket and reports at the NTSB.
What the record shows
- Date
- August 26, 2025 · about 10:35 pm local time
- Place
- Maryville, Missouri · Northwest Missouri Regional · map
- Type
- Accident
- Injuries
- No one was hurt; 2 people were on board or involved.
- Weather
- visual conditions (good weather)
- Aircraft
- Cessna 414, built 1973 · all 414s on the register
- Registration
- N1668T · registry record · serial 414-0461
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal flight · general aviation rules (Part 91)
The NTSB's narrative final · quoted from the NTSB record
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.
The complete narrative as the NTSB published it. The NTSB's docket holds the report as a PDF and any photographs, statements and other documents from the investigation.
The factual record from the NTSB's investigation tables, in plain English
What happened, in order
- Runway excursion during landing (landing roll)
- Landing gear collapse during landing (landing roll) defining event
The NTSB's findings
- Aircraft › Aircraft systems › Landing gear system › Main landing gear › Failure
Pilot
- Certificate: flight instructor, commercial pilot
- Ratings: multi-engine land; single-engine land; instructor: airplane single-engine; instrument: airplane
- Flight time: 1,067 hours in all; 291 in this make and model; 11 in the last 90 days; 7 in the last 30 days; 985 as pilot in command; 16 on instruments
- Last flight review: August 12, 2025
- Medical certificate: Class 2 (without waivers/limitations)
- Seat: left
- Injury: no injuries
The aircraft
- Airframe total time: 4,718 hours
- Last inspection: annual inspection, August 25, 2025; 3 hours since
- Maximum gross weight: 6,765 lb
- Seats: 7
- Landing gear: retractable
- Engine 1: Continental IO520 (piston); 1,075 hours total
- Engine 2: Continental IO520 (piston); 1,037 hours total
The flight
- Flight plan: none
- Runway 32, 4,600 ft by 75 ft
Weather at the time
- Light: daylight
- Visibility: 10 statute miles
- Sky: overcast at 8,000 ft; scat at 4,800 ft
- Temperature: 77°F (25°C), dew point 55°F (13°C)
- Altimeter: 30.24 inHg
- Observation at 5:15 pm from KEVU
Weather report (METAR): KEVU 262215Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM SCT048 OVC080 25/13 A3024
Injuries
| Fatal | Serious | Minor | None | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flig | 1 | |||
| Passengers | 1 |
About this page
Everything above comes from the NTSB's public accident database: the narrative, probable cause and findings are the NTSB's own words, and the coded tables behind its report (pilot, aircraft, flight, weather, injuries, sequence of events) are written out in plain English. Pilots' ages, home towns and medical details are left out on purpose. The docket at the NTSB holds the report as a PDF and the investigation's photographs and documents. This site never names pilots, passengers or anyone else involved. A preliminary report describes what is known soon after the event and can change; the final report, with the probable cause, usually follows one to two years later and this page is refreshed when it does. Case number CEN25LA407.