A Jetblue Airbus A320-200, registration N760JB performing flight B6-1748 from Hayden,CO to Citadel Lauderdale,FL (USA), became departing Hayden’s runway 10 at 11: 57L (18: 57Z) when the plane’s tail contacted the runway surface. The plane persisted a customary departure and climbed to FL310, when Denver Center forwarded a message to the crew stating they had a tail strike on the departure runway. The crew as a result of this truth determined to divert to Denver,CO (USA) where the plane landed on runway 35R without extra incident about 45 minutes after departure from Hayden. There had been no injuries, the plane sustained gigantic ruin alternatively.

The FAA reported: “AIRCRAFT INCURRED A TAIL STRIKE ON DEPARTURE, HAYDEN, CO.”, acknowledged the ruin became unknown and rated the occurrence an incident, later correcting to accident.

The NTSB opened an investigation into the occurrence score the occurrence an accident.

A reader made The Aviation Herald mindful that a Beech 350 became on advance to runway 28 (in reverse direction to the departure) at the time, the Jetblue might presumably want suffered the tail strike as outcomes of an avoidance maneouver. Neither FAA nor NTSB talked about the presence of some other plane within the departure course or the most likely for a lack of separation/that you might presumably well agree with collision.

Passengers (supported by video proof) reported the tail strike became clearly felt and heard upon rotation for takeoff, the captain launched about 20 minutes after departure (in regards to the time they began the descent into Denver) that they had been warding off some other shrimp plane on advance in reverse direction, they had been diverting to Denver.

In step with the FAA ASDI info (radar tracking info) a Beech 350 registration N350J returning from Citadel Smith,AR (USA) became on advance to Hayden’s runway 28 at the time of the accident and touched down at 11: 58L (19: 58Z) about 100 seconds after departure of the A320. On the time of the A320 turning into airborne the Beech 350 became 2.85nm from the runway 28 threshold descending via 7500 toes MSL (900 toes AGL). On the time the B350 touched down the A320 became climbing via 8800 toes MSL about 2.2nm previous the runway 10 stop (=runway 28 threshold) in a runt factual hand flip about 0.4nm off the prolonged runway center line.

Hayden’s Yampa Valley Airport aspects a runway 10/28 of 3048 meters/10,000 toes length at an elevation of 2010 meters/6600 toes MSL. Hayden Airport does now not characteristic a protect watch over tower, a UNICOM frequency is published for the airport.

Metars:
KHDN 222156Z AUTO 18003KT 10SM CLR M06/M13 A3035 RMK AO2 SLP346 T10611133 FZRANO=
KHDN 222056Z AUTO 17003KT 10SM CLR M04/M11 A3034 RMK AO2 SLP335 60000 T10441106 56009 FZRANO=
KHDN 222014Z AUTO 21003KT 10SM FEW003 M06/M12 A3034 RMK AO2 FZRANO=
KHDN 221956Z AUTO 00000KT 9SM BKN003 M07/M13 A3035 RMK AO2 SNB45E55 SLP344 P0000 T10671128 FZRANO=
KHDN 221923Z AUTO 19003KT 10SM BKN003 M06/M14 A3035 RMK AO2 FZRANO=
KHDN 221856Z AUTO 00000KT 9SM OVC005 M04/M10 A3036 RMK AO2 SNE52 SLP339 P0000 T10441100 FZRANO=
KHDN 221826Z AUTO 22003KT 8SM -SN BKN005 M10/M13 A3037 RMK AO2 P0000 FZRANO=
KHDN 221756Z AUTO 21005KT 8SM -SN FEW003 M11/M14 A3037 RMK AO2 SNB11 SLP364 P0000 60000 T11061144 11072 21144 51008 FZRANO=
KHDN 221735Z AUTO 19003KT 6SM -SN SCT001 M08/M12 A3037 RMK AO2 SNB11 P0000 FZRANO=
KHDN 221717Z AUTO 00000KT 3SM -SN BR BKN001 M10/M12 A3037 RMK AO2 SNB11 P0000 FZRANO=
KHDN 221715Z AUTO 00000KT 1 1/4SM -SN BR OVC001 M11/M12 A3037 RMK AO2 VIS 1/4V4 SNB11 P0000 FZRANO=
KHDN 221712Z AUTO 00000KT 3/4SM -SN BR OVC001 M11/M12 A3037 RMK AO2 SNB11 P0000 FZRANO=
KHDN 221656Z AUTO 04003KT M1/4SM FZFG OVC001 M12/M13 A3036 RMK AO2 SNE49 SLP361 P0000 T11171133 FZRANO=
KHDN 221647Z AUTO 05004KT 1/4SM -SN FZFG OVC001 M12/M14 A3037 RMK AO2 P0000 FZRANO=
KHDN 221642Z AUTO 05005KT 3/4SM -SN BR OVC001 M11/M13 A3037 RMK AO2 VIS 1/2V4 P0000 FZRANO=
KHDN 221640Z AUTO 05005KT 1 1/4SM -SN BR OVC001 M11/M12 A3037 RMK AO2 VIS 3/4V4 P0000 FZRANO=
KHDN 221637Z AUTO 05006KT 3/4SM -SN BR OVC001 M10/M12 A3037 RMK AO2 P0000 FZRANO=
KHDN 221556Z AUTO 21003KT 1/4SM -SN FZFG OVC001 M12/M14 A3036 RMK AO2 SNE02B33 SLP354 P0000 T11221139 FZRANO=

The tail of the plane considered in Denver:

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