- Date
- January 12, 1990, 11:50 local (18:50 UTC)
- Place
- Ft Collins, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N49733Boeing A75N1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 28, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900112001069A
- Case key
- 17880
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain directional control, which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve. A factor related to the accident was: the pilot's lack of familiarity with the aircraft.
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 new owner/plt (PIC) took off from downtown fort Collins airpark to practice landings with the previous owner acting as a safety plt. After practicing a number of landings, they landed at fort Collins-loveland muni arpt & refueled. The plts then took off to return to the downtown arpt for the final landing. While landing in calm wind, the tailwheel equipped acft veered to the left & went off the rwy. As it veered left, the right wing dragged the ground & was damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N49733
- Reported as
- Boeing A75N1 (A75N-1)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 75-4276
- Engine
- Continental W-670-6A, 220 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Dennis Bruce Whitsell
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Departed
- FNL · Ft Collins, CO
- Airport
- 3V5 · Ft Collins Downtown, runway 11, 4,700 × 48 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
- 32
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 144 total · 4 in this make and model · 1,376 as pilot in command · 56 in the last 90 days · 22 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 36 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N49733 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.