- Date
- August 23, 1990, 08:00 local (13:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hunter, AR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N3566QCessna 188A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900823035339A
- Case key
- 22943
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain proper clearance above the crops.
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
While spraying pesticide on a rice field the main landing gear contacted crops. The right main gear hit a rice levee and the right wing dug into the ground, flipping the airplane inverted and to the left 90 degrees.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3566Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 188A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 188-0516
- Airframe hours
- 2,932
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Henry, Mc Cain, doing business as Sunrise Applicators
- Registered owner
- Henry B Mccain
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 2, 1989 · 174 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
- 44
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 15,856 total · 554 in this make and model · 12,885 as pilot in command · 31 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LIT, 44 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.