- Date
- May 23, 1989, 08:00 local (13:00 UTC)
- Place
- Oak Grove, LA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N8699HSchweizer G-164A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 2, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890523012789A
- Case key
- 22725
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Probable cause
The pilot failed to perform adequate prelight planning/preparation before attempting a takeoff by failing to assure the runway condition.
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 pilot said he had landed on the airstrip 30 minutes prior to the accident and had found nothing abnormal about the runway condition. After loading 1,300 pounds of chemicals, he started a takeoff from the west end. Approximately 400FEET later, the main gear wheels bogged in the mud, the nose veered slightly left, the airplane tipped up on its nose and flipped forward to the inverted position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8699H
- Reported as
- Schweizer G-164A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1476
- Airframe hours
- 4,834
- Engine
- P&W R-985-AN1, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Bobby N. Brasher, Jr., doing business as Bob'S Flying Service
- Registered owner
- Bobby N. Brasher Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 20, 1989 · 46 hours before
- Departed
- NONE
- Airport
- NONE · Private Strip, runway 9, 3,000 × 70 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
- 34
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 3,375 total · 1,353 in this make and model · 32 as pilot in command · 46 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MLU, 30 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.
Other investigations on N8699H · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.