- Date
- May 14, 1987, 11:15 local (17:15 UTC)
- Place
- Limon, CO
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N70164Cessna A188B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 5, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 17227
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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.
Analysis
The plt reports that he was using a dirt road for aerial app operations. The acft was loaded with 40 gals fuel and 140 gals chem and the density alt is EST to have been 8100 ft. the plt said the takeoff was made to the e with a quartering tailwind of about 15 KTS. The acft lifted off to about 15 ft AGL but then settled back to the road with the lt wheel on the road and the rt wheel in the rt ditch. The rt wing then hit fence posts turning the acft to the rt and collapsing the lt MLG.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N70164
- Reported as
- Cessna A188B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18801855T
- Airframe hours
- 1,345
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Harlie D. Hahn, doing business as Hahn Flying Service
- Registered owner
- Hahn Flying Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
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
- 55
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 2,043 total · 15 in this make and model · 1,934 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 335° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F