- Date
- April 18, 2025, 10:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Louise, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5416Grumman G164
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Collision during takeoff/land
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 16, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250418003719A
- Case key
- 200039
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
The reported loss of engine power for undetermined reasons.
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
About 20 minutes after departing on a local flight, the pilot reported that the engine completely stopped producing power, and he performed a forced landing to corn field. During the forced landing, substantial damage was sustained to the airplane’s wing. After the accident, the airplane was recovered to the pilot’s property, and a mechanic performed a limited examination. He was able to rotate the propeller within a limited range and confirmed that the engine was not seized. In addition, there were no cracked or obvious failures with the engine case and components. Fuel was being supplied to the carburetor, and the magnetos appeared to operate. Several attempts to perform a comprehensive engine examination were not successful.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5416
- Reported as
- Grumman G164 (A)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1030
- Built
- 1973
- Airframe hours
- 9,782.9
- Engine
- Pratt & Whitney R985 AN-14B, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Nelson Flyers Inc
- Registered owner
- Nelson Flyers Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 6, 2024
- Airport
- NA
- Equipment
- Satellite tracking device
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
- 23
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 20, 2024
- Seat
- Single
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,184 total · 288 in this make and model · 1,066 as pilot in command · 37 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 20 knots, gusting 24
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,800 ft broken
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.98 inHg
- Observed at
- KARM, 20 nm away
- METAR
- KARM 181555Z AUTO 17020G24KT 10SM BKN028 BKN035 BKN044 28/20 A2998 RMK AO2 T02770203 TSNO
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 16, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.1 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.
Other investigations on N5416 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.