- Date
- August 13, 1988, 17:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Hazel Green, AL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N42404Cessna 188
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 16, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 7546
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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.
Overrun
Preflight planning/preparation - inadequateCause
Weather condition - temperature extremesFactor
Weather condition - high density altitudeFactor
Load jettison - inadequateFactor
On ground/water collision with object
Object - fenceFactor
Analysis
The plt rprtd he had flown off the strip all day & the temp had risen to 101 deg. As he was on his last takeoff, he realized the chemical load was too great for the conditions. He said he dumped part of the load, but the acft settled back to the ground. Subsequently, it went thru two electric fences & was damaged. Density altitude was estimated to be 4000 ft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N42404
- Reported as
- Cessna 188
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18803700T
- Airframe hours
- 1,448
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-T, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Buster Thornton, doing business as Thornton Aerial Application
- Registered owner
- Buster L Thornton
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 19, 1988 · 20 hours before
- Airport
- Jones Field, runway 11, 2,200 × 50 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 52
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 4,000 total · 3,200 in this make and model · 3,750 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 93 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ANB