- Date
- May 19, 1990, 13:20 local (19:20 UTC)
- Place
- Petersberg, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8803EBellanca BL-DW-1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900519018079A
- Case key
- 22964
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Probable cause
Loss of directional control as the result of an encounter with a dust devil.
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
During landing roll the airplane encountered a dust devil. After travelling about 600 feet down the runway the airplane drifted right of centerline. After approximately 110 more feet of roll the airplane ground looped and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8803E
- Reported as
- Bellanca BL-DW-1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- DW10022-81
- Airframe hours
- 2,051
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-M1B5D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Culp, Gary Lynn, doing business as Culp Agri-Chemical
- Registered owner
- Gary Lynn Culp
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 17, 1989 · 173 hours before
- Destination
- NONE
- Airport
- NONE · Private
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
- 47
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 6,000 total · 1,670 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 3 knots, gusting 5
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.