- Date
- July 16, 2002, 09:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Tolley, ND
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N4866QCessna 188B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 13, 2003
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20020716016129A
- Case key
- 55237
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to attain lift-off speed and his failure to abort the takeoff.
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
The airplane sustained substantial damage when it impacted terrain after it went off the end of the runway during takeoff. The pilot reported the airplane was unable to get airborne. He reported the airplane did not have a mechanical malfunction, and that the accident could have been prevented if he had aborted the takeoff earlier during the takeoff roll.
Factual narrative
On July 16, 2002, at 0930 central daylight time, a Cessna 188B, N4866Q, sustained substantial damage when it impacted terrain after it went off the end of the runway during takeoff. The commercial pilot was not injured. The 14 CFR Part 137 flight was departing a private grass airstrip near Tolley, North Dakota, on a local aerial application flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan had been filed.
The pilot reported the airplane was unable to get airborne. He reported the airplane did not have a mechanical malfunction, and that the accident could have been prevented if he had aborted the takeoff earlier during the takeoff roll.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4866Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 188B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18802602T
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-720, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Name, doing business as Agricultural Aerial Application
- Registered owner
- Tim Mau
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Departed
- Tolley, ND
- Airport
- runway 360
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 33
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2
- Flight hours
- 1,850 total · 60 in this make and model · 70 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 3, 2003, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 294 KB 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 N4866Q · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.