Rock Springs – Marysville

On August 9, 2001 at 01:30 PM, Rock Springs – Marysville experienced a crash involving Piper PA-60 Aerostar (Ted Smith 600), operated by Roeder-Johnson Corporation, with the event recorded near Rock Springs Wyoming.

The flight was categorized as executive/corporate/business and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

1 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 1 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

Crew on board: 1, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The airplane had just taken off and was climbing through 9,000 feet when the pilot heard "a very loud explosive sound" that came from the right side of the aircraft. He returned to the airport and landed. When the airplane touched down, it began veered to the right and the pilot attempted to correct. The airplane departed the right side of the runway and the right main landing gear collapsed, driving it through the top of the wing. Half of the right main tire (30 hours total time in service) and most of its inner tube (with a round section blown out) were found at the point of touch down. Missing was the valve stem. Continuous S-shaped marks indicated the tire came off the rim.

Aircraft reference details include registration N44JH, MSN 62-0902-8165031, year of manufacture 1981.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 41.5861°, -109.2195°.