- Date
- June 15, 1989, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Morse, LA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N8916HGrumman-Schweizer G-164A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 18, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890615015769A
- Case key
- 22728
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
Loss of engine power for an undetermined reason. The soft terrain was a contributing factor.
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 ag acft was departing a pvt strip with a load of chemicals. As it was climbing thru aprx 100' AGL, the plt started to reduce power, then the eng lost all power. The plt dumped the chemical load & made a forced landing in a bean field. During the landing roll, the wheels encountered soft terrain & the acft nosed over. An exam of the eng revealed only a minor crack on the #5 cylinder, near the front spark plug hole. No reason for the rprtd power loss could be found.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8916H
- Reported as
- Grumman-Schweizer G-164A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1613
- Airframe hours
- 5,171
- Engine
- P&W R-1340-AN1, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Registered owner
- Lewis Flying And Maint. Svc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 1, 1989 · 440 hours before
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
- 35
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 4,133 total · 1,635 in this make and model · 4,013 as pilot in command · 410 in the last 90 days · 168 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- 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 N8916H · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.