- Date
- April 3, 1988, 15:44 local (21:44 UTC)
- Place
- Colorado Spring, CO
- Injuries
- 4 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N5WWBeech A36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 21, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880403012399A
- Case key
- 17357
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
After takeoff the acft failed to climb sufficiently to clear a utility pole one-half mile off the end of the runway. The acft collided with the pole and crashed in a residential street. The plt and three pax were fatally injured and the acft was consumed by fire. Available information indicates that power required was greater than power available for takeoff at near max gross wt from the high altitude, high density altitude arpt, and the plt was inexperienced in high altitude arpt operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5WW
- Reported as
- Beech A36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E207
- Airframe hours
- 5,083
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-BA, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Welty-Way Heliport, Inc,
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · January 8, 1988
- Destination
- CID · Cedar Rapids, IA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- COS · Colorado Springs, runway 35, 11,021 × 150 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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 668 total · 242 in this make and model · 530 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 12 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- COS, 2 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.