- Date
- September 21, 2024, 09:15 local (14:15 UTC)
- Place
- LaPlace, LA · sugar cane field
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6565Grumman G-164A
- Defining event
- Enroute: Loss of engine power (total)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA Flight Standards
- FAA report
- 20240921013969A
- Case key
- 195162
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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Probable cause
Total loss of engine power during the agricultural application flight for reasons that could not be determined.
Findings · 1
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported he had just completed an agricultural application pass and had entered a turn to setup for the next pass, when he heard a “pop” from the engine and felt the airplane slow down. His efforts to restore engine power were not successful. He dumped the application load and executed a forced landing to a road. After touching down, he maneuvered the airplane to avoid a tractor parked along the side of the road. Unfortunately, the left wing struck the sugar cane crop adjacent to the road causing damage to the lower wings, wing struts, and landing gear. A postaccident examination of the airframe and engine did not identify any preimpact anomalies consistent with an inability of the engine to produce rated power.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6565
- Reported as
- Grumman G-164A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 722
- Built
- 1970
- Airframe hours
- 7,975
- Engine
- Pratt & Whitney R1340-53H1G, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Ag Air Inc
- Registered owner
- Ag Air Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 12, 2024 · 48 hours before
- Departed
- L83 · Thibodaux, LA
- Destination
- L83 · Thibodaux, LA
- Airport
- N/A · N/A
- Equipment
- Angle of attack indicator
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
- 55
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 12, 2024
- Seat
- Single
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 2,737 total · 2,594 in this make and model · 2,737 as pilot in command · 112 in the last 90 days · 61 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 11 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 77 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- KMSY, 11 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KMSY 211353Z 01007KT 10SM FEW055 28/25 A2995
Docket · 6
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 10, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 78.4 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.