DEN82FTE20 · Steen SKYBOLT
Orin Aviation Steen SKYBOLT · Accident: in flight collision with object en route
From Glenwood Springs, CO to Rifle, CO
Event
- NTSB case
- DEN82FTE20
- 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
Steen SKYBOLT
- Aircraft type
- Steen SKYBOLT
- 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
- N58D
- Operator
- Orin Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Glenwood Springs, COTo Rifle, CO
- 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
- En route · climb to cruise
- 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
- In flight collision with object
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Tree(s)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Airspeed, misjudged
- Pilot in command › Altitude, misjudged
- Pilot in command › Distance, misjudged
- Pilot in command › In-flight planning/decision, improper
Not plotted · Location withheld: coordinates are missing, conflicting, invalid, or have no accepted acquisition method. No substitute location has been invented.
NTSB narrative
THE AIRCRAFT CRASHED INTO TREES IN MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE GLENWOOD SPRINGS COUNTY AIRPORT. THIS OCCURRED WHILE THE PILOT WAS FLYING LOW OVER THE MOUNTAINOUS AREA AND WAS UNABLE TO OUTCLIMB THE RISING TERRAIN. THE DENSITY ALTITUDE WAS ABOUT 11300 FT.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DEN82FTE20
- Event ID
- 20020917X03221
- Case number
- DEN82FTE20
- 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: 63f40ea446543ab90a45b48886d07ae516ee7e4c1fe734c54f77f35b11fb94e2; retrieved 2026-09-24T02:08:10.045Z.