- Date
- May 21, 1993, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Harrisonville, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Aircraft
- N4426QCessna 188A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930521014759A
- Case key
- 15721
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Probable cause
Pilot in command's failure to attain a proper climb.
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
Pilot took off from Harrisonville, MO. Airport on an aerial application flight. Weight was calculated as 3950 pounds. Maximum gross weight for the aircraft is 4000 pounds. After take off, pilot was unable to maintain altitude and collided with trees.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4426Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 188A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18800826
- Airframe hours
- 4,369
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Samuel J. & Patricia A. Styron
- Registered owner
- Samuel J. & Patricia A. Styron
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 23, 1993 · 46 hours before
- Departed
- MO85
- Airport
- MO85 · Lawrence Smith Memorial, runway 17, 4,000 × 50 ft, asphalt
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
- 35
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 640 total · 371 in this make and model · 574 as pilot in command · 46 in the last 90 days · 44 in the last 30 days · 10 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GVW, 19 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.