- Date
- December 21, 2000, 15:22 local (22:22 UTC)
- Place
- Aspen, CO
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N130MSMitsubishi MU-2B-60
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 26, 2001
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 50823
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
A hard landing which exceeded the design stress limits of the aircraft.
Analysis
During landing from a visual approach at the conclusion of an IFR cross-country flight, the touchdown was hard and the aircraft was in a crab. The right main landing gear tire blew out on touchdown and damage was incurred to the right main landing gear assembly, right main landing gear brake system, right propeller, and the right fuselage wall was penetrated by debris.
Factual narrative
On December 21, 2000, at 1522 mountain standard time, a Mitsubishi MU-2B-60, received substantial damage during a hard landing at Aspen, Colorado. The commercial pilot and his two passengers were not injured. The flight was operating under Title 14 CFR Part 91 and an IFR flight plan was filed. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for this cross-country flight, which departed McCook, Nebraska, at 1349.
According to observers at the Aspen airport, runway 15 was in use and the aircraft landed hard in a crab. The right main landing gear tire blew out on touchdown, damaging the right main landing gear brake system, right main landing gear assembly, right propeller, and the right side of the fuselage was penetrated by pieces from the blown tire.
In his narrative concerning the accident, the pilot said the right man tire blew out at touchdown and he stopped the aircraft on the runway and conducted an evacuation.
Wind at the time of the landing was from 220 degrees at 5 knots.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N130MS
- Reported as
- Mitsubishi MU-2B-60
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 750SA
- Airframe hours
- 4,150
- Engine
- Garrett TPE331-10, 625 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Prima Group Traders, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Prima Group Marketing, LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 20, 2000 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- MCK · Mccook, NE
- Destination
- ASE
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- ASE · Pitkin County, runway 15, 7,004 × 100 ft, concrete
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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 45
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,293 total · 493 in this make and model · 1,293 as pilot in command · 55 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ASE