- Date
- March 30, 1989, 18:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Statesboro, GA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N9583GCessna A188B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890330005049A
- Case key
- 7826
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Probable cause
Improper inflight planning which allowed the engine to lose power due to fuel exhaustion.
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
During an aerial application flight the engine had a total power loss. The aircraft bounced three times during the forced landing and received substantial damage when it flipped over on the third bounce. The pilot made statements to three persons that he 'ran out of gas'. A fourth person alleges that he saw fuel running from the aircraft. The engine was subsequently test run and operated normally.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9583G
- Reported as
- Cessna A188B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18801545T
- Airframe hours
- 3,743
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Hilde Aviation, doing business as Hilde Ag Service
- Registered owner
- Chadwick Q Hilde
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 28, 1989 · 3 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
- 19
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Invalid Medical for flight
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 1,242 total · 601 in this make and model · 1,119 as pilot in command · 46 in the last 90 days · 29 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 270° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SAV, 2 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 N9583G · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.