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DEN83LA212 · Beech B90

10 Sept 1983 · Burlington, CO, United States

Beech B90 · Accident: overrun during landing

From Denver International Airport (DEN) to an unrecorded destination

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Event

NTSB case
DEN83LA212
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
Charter & commuter
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

Beech B90

Aircraft type
Beechcraft 90
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
N400AM
Operator
Unknown
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Denver International Airport (DEN), Denver, COTo 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 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
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
Overrun
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

  • Pilot in command › Airspeed, misjudged
  • Pilot in command › Distance, misjudged
  • Pilot in command › Go-around, not performed

Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.

NTSB narrative

DURING ARRIVAL, THE PLT CHECKED THE LIGHTED WIND SOCK & ESTIMATED THAT THE WIND WAS FROM 020 DEG AT 10 KTS. HE ELECTED NOT TO LAND ON RWY 31 SINCE THERE WERE OBSTACLES NEAR THE APCH END. HE STATED THAT WHEN THE ACFT WAS ABOUT TO TOUCH DOWNON RWY 13, THERE WAS A BIG GUST OF WIND WHICH MADE THE ACFT LAND LONG. AS THE ACFT LANDED. THE PLT SELECTED MAX REVERSE,BUT GOT NO RESPONSE. HE DECIDE HE COULD NOT MAKE A SUCCESSFUL GO-AROUND SO HE APPLIED MAX BRAKING, BUT WAS UNABLE TO STOP ON THE REMAINING RWY. SUBSEQUENTLY, THE ACFT DEPARTED THE RWY, WENT THRU A FENCE, CROSSED A ROAD, HIT A POLE & THENTHE GEAR COLLAPSED AS IT WENT OVER RAILROAD TRACKS. A WITNESS ESTIMATED THAT AT ABOUT THE TIME THE ACFT WAS LANDING, THEWIND SHIFTED TO THE NORTH & INCREASED TO ABOUT 35 TO 40 MPH. REPORTEDLY, THE FINAL APCH SPEED WAS ABOUT 13 KTS TOO FAST.SKID MARKS WERE FOUND ON THE RWY, STARTING ABOUT 2000 FT FROM THE APCH END. WITH A 35 KT TAIL WIND, LANDING ROLL WITHOUTREVERSE THRUST WOULD HAVE BEEN 3015 FT. NO MALFUNCTIONS FOUND, BUT IT WAS NOTED THAT REVERSE SYS WAS INOP ABOVE 90 KTS.

Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset

Sources

NTSB record DEN83LA212
Event ID
20001214X44511
Case number
DEN83LA212
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: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
  • The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
  • API snapshot SHA-256: 94cab82d4ab78b5cff94be6d04009d8950a123840a6f47b2d60eed97ef9314e4; retrieved 2026-09-18T20:54:24.865Z.