- Date
- August 20, 1987, 09:45 local (15:45 UTC)
- Place
- Longmont, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4700MPiper PA-11
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 6, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870820046999A
- Case key
- 17301
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
Flare - misjudgedCause
Directional control - not maintainedCause
Ground loop/swerve - uncontrolledCause
Lack of total experience in type of aircraftFactor
On ground/water collision with object
Object - approach light/navaidCause
Nose over
Analysis
The plt was attempting to land his rented acft on runway 29 at Longmont municipal airport when the acft touched down, bounced, veered off of the runway, struck a VASI light, and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4700M
- Reported as
- Piper PA-11
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 11 209
- Airframe hours
- 5,915
- Engine
- Continental C-90, 90 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Boulder Flying Service
- Registered owner
- Johnny D Smith
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 5, 1986 · 90 hours before
- Departed
- IV5 · Boulder, CO
- Destination
- 2V2 · Longmont, CO
- Airport
- 2V2 · Longmount Munic., runway 29, 4,200 × 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
- 28
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 1,094 total · 3 in this make and model · 957 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.