- Date
- March 21, 1983, 16:04 local (23:04 UTC)
- Place
- Denver, CO
- Injuries
- 82 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N7358FBoeing 737-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 16027
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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Analysis
During takeoff the inboard left main landing gear tire & wheel departed the acft. The flight returned and landed withoutfurther incident. Examination of the wheel rim revealed multiple fatigue cracks in the rim.
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.
Other gear collapsed
Landing gear,wheel - crackedCause
Landing gear,wheel - fatigueCause
Landing gear,wheel - loss,totalCause
Landing gear,tire - failure,totalCause
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7358F
- Reported as
- Boeing 737-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22744
- Engine
- P&W JT-8D-17, 16,000 lbs thrust, turbo jet
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Registered owner
- Frontier Airlines, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Destination
- ATL · Atlanta, GA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- DEN · Stapleton Int'L, runway 17R, 12,000 × 200 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
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 34 °F, dew point 14 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DEN