- Date
- August 15, 1987, 11:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Page, AZ
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N608VBeech 35-33
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 7, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 25666
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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.
Analysis
After arriving at the arpt, the plt entered traffic to land on rwy 15 with a gusty x-wind from the right. He reported that just before touchdown, the aircraft entered a sudden left roll. Subsequently, the left wing contacted the runway and the plane nosed down, collapsing the nose gear. At 1050 MST, the wind was rprtd to be from 200 deg at 10 gusting 24 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N608V
- Reported as
- Beech 35-33
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CD90
- Airframe hours
- 4,081
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-J, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Pacific Plastics & Design Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 3, 1987 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- DRO · Durango, CO
- Destination
- PGA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- PGA · Page Muni, runway 15, 5,499 × 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
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 225 total · 123 in this make and model · 181 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 10 knots, gusting 24
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PGA