- Date
- July 4, 1998, 13:57 local (18:57 UTC)
- Place
- Strandquist, MN
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N5829GCessna A188B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 19, 1999
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19980704030279A
- Case key
- 10950
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Probable cause
the pilot's failure to maneuver to avoid obstructions. A factor was the trees.
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 pilot said that he was on his third swath run dispensing chemicals when he allowed the left wing of the airplane to contact trees. This was followed by loss of control and impact with the terrain.
Factual narrative
On July 4, 1998, at 1357 central daylight time, a Cessna A188B, N5829G, sustained substantial damage on impact with trees and the terrain at the end of a swath run, seven and one-quarter miles west of Strandquist, Minnesota. The commercial pilot received serious injuries. The aerial application 14 CFR Part 137 flight was operating in visual meteorological conditions. No flight plan was on file. The local flight departed Crookston, Minnesota, about 1330.
The pilot, in his written statement, said that after making three swath runs he was pulling up on the last one when the left wing "clipped" a tree. He wrote in comments about how the accident might have been prevented, "Don't hit the trees."
A post accident examination of the accident airplane failed to reveal any pre-accident anomalies.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5829G
- Reported as
- Cessna A188B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18801149T
- Airframe hours
- 5,185
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Registered owner
- Daniel C. Geist
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 21, 1998 · 155 hours before
- Departed
- CKN · Crookston, MN
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
- 22
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 487 total · 155 in this make and model · 386 as pilot in command · 168 in the last 90 days · 129 in the last 30 days · 9 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GFK, 40 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.