- Date
- March 30, 1983, 13:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- New Church, VA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N8719HGrumman G164 A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830330036219A
- Case key
- 6039
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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
The acft swerved from a soft spot on the runway and left the runway. When the acft went into a plowed field the landing gear mired and the acft nosed over. The pilot could not see over the nose of the tailwheel acft to detect the soft spot in the runway. The pilot had changed the direction of takeoff and this was the first takeoff in this direction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8719H
- Reported as
- Grumman G164 A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1489
- Airframe hours
- 2,300
- Engine
- P&W R 1340 AN1, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Registered owner
- Eastern Shore Corp Srvc. Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Airport
- PVT · New Church, runway 2, 2,150 × ft, grass/turf
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
- 33
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 3,918 total · 2,535 in this make and model · 3,866 as pilot in command · 78 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N8719H · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.