- Date
- July 11, 1990, 11:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Michigan, ND
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4940RCessna 188
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900711025309A
- Case key
- 17968
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot to maintain proper alignment during landing.
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 commercial pilot was landing at his ranch strip. At touchdown, the left spray boom caught in a standing wheat crop and spun the plane to the left, 180 degrees. The plane slammed onto the landing strip and the fuselage was torn in half, two feet behind the cockpit. The right wing spar was bent.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4940R
- Reported as
- Cessna 188
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18802457T
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Oewick. Don
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Airport
- NONE, runway 9, 1,500 × 12 ft, dirt
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
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 2,335 total · 1,121 in this make and model · 2,275 as pilot in command · 89 in the last 90 days · 89 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 9,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N4940R · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.