- Date
- March 18, 1982, 11:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Terry, MS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N86440Cessna A188B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 18, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820318006569A
- Case key
- 72804
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
During departure from a 2100 ft runway the pilot realized the plane was overloaded for the conditions. He opened the dump gate about 100 ft from the end of the runway. However he reported that lumps of fertilizer in the bottom of the hopper prevented the load from dumping. The pilot was unable to clear a row of hedge trees about 350 ft from the end of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N86440
- Reported as
- Cessna A188B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18802014T
- Airframe hours
- 2,650
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Rankin County Flying Service I
- Registered owner
- Rankin County Flying Service I
- Departed
- Terry, MS
- Destination
- Terry, MS
- Airport
- Berryhill, runway 18, 2,100 × 0 ft, gravel
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 57
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 10,062 total · 9,999 in this make and model · 10,000 as pilot in command · 86 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.