AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT REPORT--TRANS-COLORADO AIRLINES, INC., FLIGHT 2286, FAIRCHILD METRO III, SA227 AC, N68TC, BAYFIELD, COLORADO, JANUARY 19, 1988

About 1920 mountain standard time on January 19, 1988, N68TC, a Trans-Colorado Airlines, Inc., Fairchild Metro III, operating as Continental Express flight 2286 from Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado, with 2 flightcrew members and 15 passengers on board, crashed on approach to Durango, Colorado. The two flightcrew members and seven passengers were killed as a result of the accident. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the first officer's flying and the captain's ineffective monitoring of an unstabilized approach which resulted in a descent below the published descent profile. Contributing to the accident was the degradation of the captain's performance resulting from his use of cocaine before the accident. The safety issues examined in this investigation include the execution of a special approach by flightcrews and the effects of cocain on human performance.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Transportation Safety Board

  Bureau of Accident Investigation, 800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20594
• Publication Date: 1989-2-4

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures;
• Pagination: 94 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pilots; Air transportation; Airline pilots; Cocaine; Crash causes; Crash reports; Fatalities
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00485529
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: NTSB/AAR-89/01
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 31 1989 12:00AM