- Date
- May 8, 1987, 18:30 local (May 9, 1987, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Englewood, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1717Beausoleil Acro Sport
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870509016689A
- Case key
- 17222
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The commercial plt was flying his experimental acro sport 1 in the local area. After about an hour of acrobatic practice, he returned for landing to his home arpt. The plt accepted rwy 28 due to heavy traffic. The winds were reported as 050 degrees at 8 knots, a quartering tailwind. Upon touchdown, the acft turned left and the plt corrected alignment. Directional control was lost and the acft departed the rwy to the left, into soft ground, and nosed over, coming to rest inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1717
- Reported as
- Beausoleil Acro Sport
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 5431521
- Airframe hours
- 174
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Tighe, Earl E.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 27, 1986 · 21 hours before
- Airport
- APA · Centennial, runway 28, 4,900 × 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
- 53
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 3,504 total · 6 in this make and model · 1,631 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- APA
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.