- Date
- August 31, 1990, 09:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Mingo, KS
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N2329YPiper PA 36-300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900831037759A
- Case key
- 14441
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Probable cause
Inadequate airspeed resulting in a stall/mush being encountered by the PIC. Contributing factors were a tailwind and a load jettison not performed.
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
While conducting an aerial application operation, the plt said that during a maneuvering turn, with a quartering tailwind, the acft settled and collided with the terrain. The plt did not dump his chemical load before colliding with the terrain.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2329Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA 36-300
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 36-8160002
- Airframe hours
- 2,186
- Engine
- Lycoming IO540-KIG5, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- John Holzmeister
- Registered owner
- Holzmeister Ag Aviation Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 3, 1990 · 189 hours before
- Departed
- Oakley, KS
- Airport
- NONE
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
- 39
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 5,410 total · 2,100 in this make and model · 5,300 as pilot in command · 180 in the last 90 days · 60 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 8 knots, gusting 12
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N2329Y · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.