DEN89LA164
1989-06-30 · TELLURIDE, Colorado, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed
Airport TEX
Current FAA registration · N82908
- Make / Model
- PIPER PA-32-301T
- Year of manufacture
- 1982 · 7 years old at event
- Engine
- LYCOMING TI0-540 SER (310 hp)
- Seats / Engines
- 7 seats · 1 engine
- Last airworthiness date
- 19821118
- ADS-B equipped
- Yes — Mode-S AB54C3
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
Aircraft involved
Probable cause & findings
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AIRCRAFT CONTROL DURING AN ENCOUNTER WITH TURBULENCE. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE TURBULENCE.
Factual narrative
THE PRIVATE PLT AND HIS FAMILY, WERE MAKING AN X-COUNTRY FLIGHT. THE PLT REPORTED AN APPROACH TO RWY 27, A 6,900 X 75 FT, ASPHALT RWY, WITH WINDS ESTIMATED FROM 315 DEGREES AT 15 KNOTS. ACCORDING TO THE PLT, THE AIRPLANE ENCOUNTERED A 'GUST FROM BELOW'. THE PLT DESCRIBED LOW LEVEL TURBULENCE AND SAID HE LOST TRACK OF THE AIRSPEED. HE SAID HE HEARD THE STALL HORN AND THE AIRPLANE FELL ABOUT 10 FT TO THE GROUND. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12
Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file
NTSB_1989_DEN89LA164.txt.
Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb.
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Related research
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- arXiv 2026 · arXiv preprint Direct Numerical Simulations of Ice-Ocean Boundary Turbulence
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- arXiv 2025 · arXiv preprint Explainable LiDAR 3D Point Cloud Segmentation and Clustering for Detecting Airplane-Generated Wind Turbulence
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