- Date
- August 20, 1990, 10:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Eckley, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N4933QCessna 188B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900820034349A
- Case key
- 17797
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Probable cause
A failure on the part of the pilot in command to maintain adequate terrain clearance.
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
While conducting a swath run during agricutural chemical application, the pilot failed to maintain clearance from terrain and collided with a ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4933Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 188B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18802668T
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Yuma Ag Service, Inc., doing business as Central States Ag, Inc.
- Departed
- 2V6 · Yuma, CO
- Destination
- 2V6
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
- 27
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 1,562 total · 1,300 in this make and model · 1,473 as pilot in command · 214 in the last 90 days · 150 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 6 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- AKO, 48 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.