- Date
- April 28, 1990, 14:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Montrose, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N7620VAero Commander Callair A-9B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 5, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900428013079A
- Case key
- 17925
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Probable cause
Inadequate compensation for wind conditions by the pilot. The adverse wind conditions were related factors.
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 took off on rwy 30 with a wind from 210 deg at 25 gusting 35 KTS. During lift-off, the acft encountered gusts, entered a right bank & impacted on its right wing tip & nose. It then rotated & slid backwards into a fence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7620V
- Reported as
- Aero Commander Callair A-9B (CALLAIR A-)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1348
- Airframe hours
- 3,200
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540, 290 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Crawford Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 4, 1989 · 25 hours before
- Destination
- 99V · Crawford, CO
- Airport
- MTJ · Montrose, runway 30, 8,497 × 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
- 52
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 2,954 total · 100 in this make and model · 2,800 as pilot in command · 54 in the last 90 days · 23 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 25 knots, gusting 35
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MTJ, 1 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.