- Date
- June 5, 1986, 14:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- La Feria, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N552YGrumman G-164
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860605021819A
- Case key
- 21970
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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
As the plt was making a swath run, he started to cross under power lines, but saw the profile view of a road marker. When he pulled up to avoid the road marker, the acft struck the wires, rolled to the left & collided with the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N552Y
- Reported as
- Grumman G-164
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 223
- Airframe hours
- 5,900
- Engine
- P&W R-985-AN14B, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Robert Hough, doing business as Santa Rosa Crop Care
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 11, 1986 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- AG · Santa Rosa, TX
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
- 53
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 14,000 total · 10,000 in this make and model · 14,000 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- 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.
Other investigations on N552Y · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.