DEN87LA200 · Cessna 185A
Cessna 185A · Accident: loss of control on ground/water during landing
From 5ND6 · Hillsboro, ND to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- DEN87LA200
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 185A
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 185
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N1686Z
- Operator
- Jeff Faught
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From 5ND6 · Hillsboro, NDTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing · landing roll
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of control on ground/water
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Dual student › Compensation for wind conditions, not maintained
- Pilot in command(cfi) › Remedial action, delayed
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PVT PLT WAS RECEIVING DUAL INSTRUCTION FOR THE PURPOSE OF A CHECKOUT IN THE CESSNA 185. THE DUAL STUDENT LANDED THE ACFT ON RUNWAY 34 WITH A RIGHT CROSSWIND. DURING THE LANDING ROLL THE ACFT BEGAN TO 'WEATHERVANE' AND THE RT WING BEGAN TO RISE. REMEDIAL ACTION WAS TAKEN BY THE FLT INSTRUCTOR BUT THE ACFT LEFT MAIN GEAR FAILED.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DEN87LA200
- Event ID
- 20001213X31490
- Case number
- DEN87LA200
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1987-07-28.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 88fbb3e1fe271a05c9f66449de81b5eb96a6355a967c1f1f90117b305eb6657d; retrieved 2026-09-23T12:40:47.012Z.