- Date
- December 3, 1983, 15:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Englewood, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N16111Cessna 150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 16300
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of control - on ground/water
Terrain condition - slush coveredFactor
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - uncontrolledCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - snowbankFactor
Nose gear collapsed
Landing gear,nose gear - overloadFactor
Nose over
Analysis
The acft collided with a snowbank and nosed over during landing. The plt said the acft was rolling out when it hit some slush on the rwy and was pulled into a snowbank on the left. The nose gear folded when it hit the 3 ft snowbank and the acft nosed over. The plt said the speed then was about 10 KTS. The rwy is 5148 ft long and 75 wide.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N16111
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15073485
- Airframe hours
- 13,200
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Arapahoe Aero, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Cletis J. Rohlender
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- APA · Arpahoe County, runway 34L, 5,148 × 77 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 48
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 30 total · 30 in this make and model · 42 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 25 °F
- Observed at
- APA