- Date
- July 20, 1989, 08:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Weston, CO
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9038TCessna 182C
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 19, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890720029939A
- Case key
- 17756
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Probable cause
Water in the fuel and inadequate preflight by the pilot. A contributing factor was the ditch.
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 plts were moving the acft to the owner's ranch strip. One of the plts rprtd that on final apch to land, the eng lost power. Subsequently, an emergency landing was made near the strip. However, during the landing roll, the acft encountered a ditch & nosed over. The owner rprtd that water was found in the fuel system during a post acdnt inspn.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9038T
- Reported as
- Cessna 182C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 52938
- Engine
- Continental O-470-L, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Bernard Parsons
- Departed
- TAD · Trinidad, CO
- Airport
- Parsons Ranch, runway 27, 3,400 × 55 ft, grass/turf
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
- 53
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 300 total · 100 in this make and model · 6 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.