- Date
- June 15, 1989, 09:45 local (15:45 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Benton, MT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4971QCessna A188B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 24, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890615026469A
- Case key
- 17740
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Probable cause
Failure of the tailwheel assembly attaching bolts.
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 rprtd that while landing, there was a failure of the bolts that held the tailwheel assembly to the fuselage. The tailwheel then swiveled & the acft groundlooped. The plt noted that the bolts had been subjected to heavy forces during operations on rough, dirt, ag operating areas.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4971Q
- Reported as
- Cessna A188B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18802705T
- Airframe hours
- 1,710
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Taylor Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Taylor Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 1989 · 183 hours before
- Departed
- NONE
- Destination
- NONE
- Airport
- Pvt Strip, runway 18, 1,800 × 75 ft, grass/turf
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
- 25
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 2,650 total · 1,300 in this make and model · 2,450 as pilot in command · 270 in the last 90 days · 170 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.