- Date
- July 18, 1983, 11:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Crookston, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N92037Cessna 188B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 12277
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.
Loss of engine power(total) - nonmechanical
Fluid,fuel - exhaustionFactor
Aircraft preflight - inadequateCause
Fuel supply - inadequateCause
Refueling - not performedCause
Forced landing
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - cropFactor
Ground loop/swerve - uncontrolledCause
Analysis
The acft collided with a barley crop during a forced landing on a narrow dirt road. The acft had lost power after takeoff for a calibration spray run. The pilot stated he took off with about 10 gallons of fuel (1/8 tank) and did not visually check the fuel quatity before takeoff.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N92037
- Reported as
- Cessna 188B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1880259
- Airframe hours
- 855
- Engine
- Continental IO-520D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Darrel A. Hodge
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 8, 1983 · 64 hours before
- Airport
- CKN · Crookston, Municipal, runway 31, 3,500 × 75 ft, asphalt
N92037Registration cancelled Jun 28, 2007 · Cessna A188BAirframe modelCessna A188BEngine modelContinental IO-520 series
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
- 25
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Unknown, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 4,000 total · 50 in this make and model · 4,000 as pilot in command · 400 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 40 knots, gusting 60
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F