- Date
- October 17, 1968
- Place
- Colo Springs, CO · COLO SPRINGS, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N8880GCessna 150
- Status
- Completed · report January 3, 1969
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 107458
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3940 68/10/17 COLO SPRINGS,COLO CESSNA 150 CR- 0 0 1 INSTRUCTIONAL STUDENT, AGE 52, 31 TOTAL TIME - 1710 N8880G PX- 0 0 0 TRAINING HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - PETERSON FIELD TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION PROPELLER/JET/ROTOR BLAST STATIC: IDLING ENGINE(S) PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - PROP/JET/ROTOR BLAST FACTOR(S) PERSONNEL - MISCELLANEOUS-PERSONNEL: PILOT OF OTHER AIRCRAFT PILOT IN COMMAND - EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT PERSONNEL - TRAFFIC CONTROL PERSONNEL: INADEQUATE SPACING OF AIRCRAFT REMARKS- ACFT FLIPPED OVER FROM JET BLAST OF DC-9.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8880G
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Peterson Field
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