- Date
- May 30, 1983, 01:30 local (07:30 UTC)
- Place
- Englewood, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N29958Douglas DC-3C
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830530026759A
- Case key
- 16014
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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.
Analysis
The acft dragged a wing during landing touchdown in IMC weather conditions. The pilot had broken out misaligned with therwy. As the airspeed decayed during the transition from IFR to VFR the co-pilot took control because he thought he couldsee the rwy better. In lowering the nose of the acft and correcting the acft for landing the acft stalled about 5 ft agland the right wing dragged. The acft landed on rwy centerline and rolled out normally. The flt crew was unaware of the dragged wing until a passenger asked what had caused the sparks to come from the right wing. The co-pilot stated that hethought things would have become worse if he had not taken control of the acft when he did.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N29958
- Reported as
- Douglas DC-3C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 12357
- Airframe hours
- 18,984
- Engine
- P&W R-1830-90D, 1,050 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kimber Air, Inc., doing business as 8465 E. Costilla Pl.
- Registered owner
- Dr. Robert Goldhammer
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 26, 1983
- Departed
- PGA · Page, AZ
- Destination
- APA · Englewood, CO
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- APA · Arapahoe County, runway 34, 8,502 × 101 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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 40
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,985 total · 120 in this make and model · 2,465 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 360° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 200 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Observed at
- CDC
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.