- Date
- March 14, 2014, 10:25 local (16:25 UTC)
- Place
- Broomfield, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9538KStinson 108
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 14, 2016
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20140314003769A
- Case key
- 89004
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing, which resulted in the airplane departing the runway and nosing over.
Findings · 2
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
During landing the pilot lost control of the airplane and it veered off the left side of the runway. On departing the runway, the airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted, which resulted in substantial damage to the wing struts and spar, fuselage, and the vertical stabilizer and rudder. Inspectors from the Federal Aviation Administration examined the airplane at the scene and found no anomalies. On speaking with the pilot, the pilot told them that he had lost control.
Factual narrative
During landing the pilot lost control of the airplane and it veered off the left side of the runway. On departing the runway, the airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted, which resulted in substantial damage to the wing struts and spar, fuselage, and the vertical stabilizer and rudder. Inspectors from the Federal Aviation Administration examined the airplane at the scene and found no anomalies. On speaking with the pilot, the pilot told them that he had lost control.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9538K
- Reported as
- Stinson 108 (UNDESIGNAT)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 108-2538
- Built
- 1947
- Engine
- Franklin 6A4165 SERIES, 165 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Reiland Ron
- Registered owner
- Reiland Ron
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- BJC · Broomfield, CO
- Destination
- BJC · Broomfield, CO
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- BJC · Rocky Mountain Metropolitan, runway 12R, 7,002 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 70 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Observed at
- BJC, 1 nm away
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 29, 2016, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 95 KB 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.