Rockwell 690B N690ES

Summary

On 24 April 1998 at about 20:05 local time, a Rockwell 690B registered N690ES was involved in an accident near Broomfield, Colorado, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

24 April 1998 at 20:05

Classification

Accident

Location

Broomfield, Colorado, United States

Nearest airport

Jeffco (BJC)

Coordinates

39.8909, -105.1108

Aircraft

Rockwell 690B

Registration

N690ES

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Oklahoma City → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Not Reported

NTSB number

FTW98LA197

Nobody was injured.

Failure of the flight instructor to maintain adequate supervision, and failure of the pilot receiving instruction to maintain directional control that was lost for reasons undetermined. A factor was the concrete culvert.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot-owner said that after landing, he brought the condition levers from ground idle to reverse. The airplane veered to the right, as if 'one engine was developing more power than the other.' The instructor pilot took control and attempted to straighten the airplane but it departed the runway and struck a concrete culvert. The left landing gear collapsed, and the tip from one of the left propeller blades penetrated the pressure vessel. The right propeller and right and nose landing gears also sustained damage. During repairs, no abnormalities were found with either the propeller, pitch, or Bendix controllers.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.