ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 133749
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Date: | Saturday 25 April 1998 |
Time: | 11:00 |
Type: | Grumman G-164B Ag-Cat |
Owner/operator: | Kinder Ag Service |
Registration: | N63E |
MSN: | 305B |
Year of manufacture: | 1977 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Oberlin, LA -
United States of America
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Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Agricultural |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:On April 25, 1998, approximately 1100 central daylight time, a Grumman-Schweizer G-164B agricultural airplane, was destroyed by ground impact and a post-crash fire following a loss of control while maneuvering near Oberlin, Louisiana. The commercial pilot, the sole occupant, sustained serious injuries. The airplane was registered to Red River Ag Service of Alexandria, Louisiana, and operated by Kinder Ag Service of Kinder, Louisiana. No flight plan was filed and visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the Title 14 CFR Part 137 local aerial application flight.
According to the FAA inspector who examined the accident site, the airplane was applying rice seed to a field using north-south passes. The airplane impacted in a plowed field south of the field being seeded on a magnetic heading of approximately 300 degrees, "in a nose down attitude."
The pilot reported that the airplane "became inverted in left turn at altitude of 75-100 feet, [and he was] unable to recover." He further reported that the wind was from the southeast at 20 to 35 knots and commented that the accident could have been prevented by not flying "with wind gusts greater than 35 kts."
At 1051, reported winds at Lake Charles, Louisiana, located approximately 35 nautical miles southwest of the accident site, were from 180 degrees at 15 knots with gusts to 21 knots.
PROBABLE CAUSE:The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control. A factor was the gusty wind.
Sources:
NTSB id 20001211X09867
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
1 May 2005 |
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Kinder Ag Service |
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Fenton, Louisiana |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
21-Dec-2016 19:26 |
ASN Update Bot |
Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
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