- Date
- September 16, 1988, 18:20 local (Sep 17, 1988, 00:20 UTC)
- Place
- Denver, CO
- Injuries
- 9 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N32017Beech 1900
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880916049919I
- Case key
- 17397
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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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.
Airframe/component/system failure/malfunction
Landing gear,normal retraction/extension assembly - jammedCause
Fluid,hydraulic - contaminationCause
Gear not extended
Gear retraction - performed
Wheels up landing - intentional
Aircraft
- Registration
- N32017
- Reported as
- Beech 1900
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- UC-37
- Airframe hours
- 141
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-65B, 1,100 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Rocky Mountain Airways, doing business as Continental Express
- Registered owner
- Continental Airlines, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · September 15, 1988 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- DEN
- Destination
- LBF · North Platte, NE
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- DEN · Stapleton Int'L, runway 35, 12,000 × 200 ft, concrete
N32017Registration cancelled Mar 15, 2005 · Beech 1900CAirframe modelBeech 1900CEngine modelPratt & Whitney PT6A 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
- 34
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,300 total · 75 in this make and model · 5,800 as pilot in command · 145 in the last 90 days · 88 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DEN
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.