- Date
- May 18, 1988, 16:20 local (20:20 UTC)
- Place
- Messic, NC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N8250GCessna 188
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 3, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880518037859A
- Case key
- 7557
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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
Object - tree(s)
Altitude - misjudgedCause
ComplacencyFactor
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
During turnaround procedures, the airplane collided with trees and crashed. The pilot indicated that he had sprayed the field where the accident occurred many times during the past three years.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8250G
- Reported as
- Cessna 188
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18801266T
- Engine
- Continental O-520, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Tom Adams, doing business as Shannon Ag Service
- Registered owner
- Shannon Ag Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 28, 1988 · 50 hours before
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
- 64
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 36,000 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 35,000 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.