- Date
- August 10, 1988, 16:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Bainbridge, GA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N731UHCessna 188B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 26, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880810033669A
- Case key
- 7542
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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.
In flight collision with object
Weather condition - high density altitudeFactor
Terrain condition - cropFactor
Aircraft performance - exceededCause
Stall/mush - inadvertentCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Aircraft
- Registration
- N731UH
- Reported as
- Cessna 188B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18803162T
- Airframe hours
- 3,367
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- William F. Howell, doing business as Howell Crop Dusting Service
- Registered owner
- Ag Flight Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 14, 1988 · 232 hours before
- Departed
- BGE · Bainbridge, GA
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
- 46
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 5,500 total · 2,200 in this make and model · 5,400 as pilot in command · 375 in the last 90 days · 200 in the last 30 days · 9 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 97 °F, dew point 79 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MCN, 100 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.