Beechcraft 35 N3052V

Summary

On 11 January 1996 at about 22:18 local time, a Beechcraft 35 registered N3052V was involved in an accident near Allenspark, Colorado, United States. 2 people were on board and 2 died. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

11 January 1996 at 22:18

Classification

Accident

Location

Allenspark, Colorado, United States

Coordinates

40.1994, -105.5191

Aircraft

Beechcraft 35

Registration

N3052V

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Business

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Longmont → Page

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

FTW96FA119

2 people died.

Aircraft control not maintained by the pilot in command for reasons undetermined.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

There was no record of the pilot obtaining a weather briefing or filing a flight plan. According to radar data, a VFR target departed Longmont, Colorado, at 1502 and proceeded westbound. At 1513, the target made a left 360 degree turn, climbing from 10,700 feet to 10,900 feet, then continued on a westerly course, climbing to 11,200 feet. Radar contact was lost at 1518. The wreckage was located one month later, about 1/2-mile from the last radar position of the target, in an area of 12,000 to 13,000 foot mountains. Two AIRMETs were in effect for Colorado at the time, calling for occasional mountain obscurement in clouds and precipitation, moderate updrafts and downdrafts over the mountains due to developing mountain wave activity, occasional moderate turbulence below 20,000 feet, isolated severe turbulence below 15,000 feet, and the potential for low level wind shear over the eastern slopes of the Rockies due to strong gusty west-northwesterly low level flow near the surface. A witness 10 miles south of the accident site said that on the day of the accident, surface winds in the area were approximately 60 mph with 'a lot of debris blowing along the ground.'

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.