- Date
- July 28, 1984, 08:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Pagosa Springs, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4617ECessna 182
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840728036169A
- Case key
- 16449
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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
While turning the base leg, the plt viewed a hot air balloon near the final apch corridor. The plt elected to make a short final to avoid the balloon. The acft bounced during touchdown. The plt added power to recover and the acft veered off the left side of the rwy contacting a fence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4617E
- Reported as
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18268251
- Airframe hours
- 306
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Robert Holm
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 25, 1984
- Departed
- SAF · Santa Fe, NM
- Airport
- 2V1 · Stevens, runway 4, 5,600 × 60 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
- 57
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,517 total · 52 in this make and model · 1,338 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 0° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.