- Date
- August 9, 1990, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Columbus, NE
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6745KGrumman G-164B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900809031829A
- Case key
- 14741
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Probable cause
Standing water on the approach end of the runway.
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
Corn field irrigators had flooded the approach end of the landing strip. The pilot said that he was unable to see the water, due to the height of the grass, and shortly after touchdown, the acft flipped inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6745K
- Reported as
- Grumman G-164B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 446B
- Engine
- P&W R-1340-AN1, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Sedlak Aerial Spraying Ltd.
- Airport
- NONE · Miller "Pvt"
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 10,088 total · 5,668 in this make and model · 9,991 as pilot in command · 124 in the last 90 days · 83 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- OLU, 5 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.