- Date
- August 7, 1969
- Place
- Denver, CO · DENVER, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8551QBeech S35
- Status
- Completed · report April 1, 1970
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 162183
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3470 69/8/7 DENVER,COLO BEECH S35 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 32, 1030 TIME - 0656 N8551Q PX- 0 0 0 BUSINESS TOTAL HOURS, 790 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - STAPLETON DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION STERLING,COLO DENVER,COLO TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION TURBULENCE LANDING: FINAL APPROACH COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - VORTEX TURBULENCE PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED DISTANCE FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - CONGESTED TRAFFIC-PATTERN REMARKS- WAKE TURB FROM PRECEDING BOEING TRNG JET. TOWER WARNED ACFT IN PATTERN. WIND 2K.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8551Q
- Reported as
- Beech S35
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Stapleton