- Date
- August 3, 1990, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Sherrill, AR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N8104KSchweizer G-164B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900803030349A
- Case key
- 22940
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Probable cause
Premature lift off and subsequent stall.
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
Shortly after taking off from the approximately 2,000 foot long agricultural airstrip, the airplane settled back to the terrain. The pilot began dumping his load of insecticide but was unable to maintain flight and the airplane mushed into an adjacent cotton field. Post impact fire consumed much of the wreckage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8104K
- Reported as
- Schweizer G-164B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 565B
- Airframe hours
- 8,010
- Engine
- P&W R-1340-AN1, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Brandon, Ralph J. Jr., doing business as Farmers Fly Svc Of Coy
- Registered owner
- Brandon, Ralph Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 10, 1990 · 505 hours before
- Departed
- NONE
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
- 32
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 3,500 total · 3,000 in this make and model · 3,300 as pilot in command · 300 in the last 90 days · 150 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.