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Event DEN91LA041

1991-02-10 DURANGO, Colorado, United States Airport · DRO Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9653Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH P35

Year of manufacture

1962 · 29 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19621217

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD7191

Registrant of record

ROBERTS CHANCE A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Probable cause & findings

ENGINE FAILURE DUE TO OIL STARVATION CAUSED BY TURBOCHARGER OIL FEED LINE FAILURE AND SUBSEQUENT LOSS OF LUBRICATING OIL TO THE ENGINE.

Factual narrative

WHILE ON A LOCAL FLIGHT, THE TURBOCHARGER OIL FEED LINE FAILED CAUSING LOSS OF LUBRICATING OIL TO THE ENGINE, WHICH RESULTED IN THE ENGINE FAILING MECHANICALLY. THE PILOT ATTEMPTED AN EMERGENCY ENGINE OUT LANDING AT THE AIRPORT WHICH ENDED WITH A LANDING 200 FEET SHORT OF THE APPROACH END OF THE RUNWAY IN ROUGH TERRAIN. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1991_DEN91LA041.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (engine failure). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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