- Date
- December 8, 1985, 13:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Aurora, CO
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N37550Piper PA-28R-201T
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 16900
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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.
On ground/water collision with object
Object - fence
Clearance - misjudgedCause
InattentiveFactor
Airport facilities,taxiway condition - congestedFactor
Analysis
According to the plt, the right wing struck a fence while diverting off the taxiway centerline to make room for another oncoming acft. Contact with the fence resulted in a bent spar in the right wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N37550
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R-201T (PA-28R-201)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-7703116
- Airframe hours
- 2,315
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-360-FB, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Nason Associates, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 1, 1985
- Destination
- 3DW · Springfield, MD
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- APA · Centennial
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 51
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,385 total · 1,385 in this make and model · 1,140 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 308° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 36 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DEN, 12 nm away