- Date
- May 1, 1985, 10:16 local (14:16 UTC)
- Place
- No.Myrtle Bch, SC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N5292GCessna 305A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850501015159A
- Case key
- 6788
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
After a banner pickup the plt was instructed by company group and crew to release the banner due to a fouled pickup. The banner was released during a steep climb out altitude. As the banner was released the plt lost directional control of the acft & crashed on the west side of rwy 05. The uninjured plt was removed from the acft by ground personnel & the acft was destroyed by post crash fire.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5292G
- Reported as
- Cessna 305A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 22515
- Airframe hours
- 8,000
- Engine
- Continental O-470 SERIES, 213 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Other work use · Part 91
- Operator
- C.D. Horton, doing business as Phenix Flight Signs,Inc.
- Registered owner
- Phoenix Flight Signs, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Departed
- CRE
- Airport
- CRE · Grand Strand, runway 5, 5,996 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 21
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 955 total · 35 in this make and model · 860 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CRE, 1 nm away
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 N5292G · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.