- Date
- October 31, 1987, 14:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Watkins, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N275CHQuickie Q-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871031061469A
- Case key
- 17325
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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 rprtd he failed to lock the aileron reflexers tight for landing. During the landing roll, the lock slipped & the tail lifted off the rwy. Subsequently, the acft veered to the right, went off the rwy & hit a mudhole, then flipped over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N275CH
- Reported as
- Quickie Q-200
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 2759
- Airframe hours
- 27
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Registered owner
- Charles Ray Harris
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 27, 1987 · 22 hours before
- Departed
- APA · Englewood, CO
- Airport
- 1W1 · Front Range, runway 26, 8,000 × 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
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 814 total · 7 in this make and model · 784 as pilot in command · 46 in the last 90 days · 38 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- APA, 22 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.