- Date
- August 15, 1987, 12:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Colorado Spring, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7058CNorth American AT-6C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 5, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870815045789A
- Case key
- 17300
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
Weather condition - tailwindFactor
Wrong runway - selectedCause
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Analysis
The plt reports that he accepted a tailwind for his landing and ground-looped during the roll out.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7058C
- Reported as
- North American AT-6C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 27352
- Airframe hours
- 3,576
- Engine
- P&W R1340AN1, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert Hrebek, doing business as Cherokee Corporation
- Registered owner
- Cherokee Corporation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 11, 1987 · 10 hours before
- Airport
- COS · Colorado Springs Muni., runway 21, 8,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
N7058CRegistered now · North American SNJ-4Airframe modelNorth American SNJ-4Engine modelPratt & Whitney R1340 series
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
- 61
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Rear
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 8,355 total · 25 in this make and model · 8,315 as pilot in command · 46 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.