- Date
- February 19, 1985, 17:45 local (Feb 20, 1985, 00:45 UTC)
- Place
- Rifle, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1169QCessna A185F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850219005349A
- Case key
- 16638
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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 plt had been practicing takeoffs and landings with what he described as a slight 90 deg x-wind. During the final landing, the plt reported, the right wing rose and the left wing dropped contacting the ground. He was able to level the acft and initiate an aborted landing, however, the acft contacted a snow bank along the left side of the rwy and the acft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1169Q
- Reported as
- Cessna A185F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18503466
- Airframe hours
- 474
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Allan B. Duckworth
- Registered owner
- Barry F. Hicks
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 15, 1984 · 33 hours before
- Departed
- RIL
- Airport
- RIL · Garfield County, runway 8, 6,000 × 100 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 412 total · 23 in this make and model · 322 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 280° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RIL
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.