- Date
- October 4, 1990, 15:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Manila, AR
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N503MACessna A-188
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 23191
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain proper clearance from power lines and the inadvertent 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.
In flight collision with object
Object - wire,transmission
Clearance - not maintained
Loss of control - in flight
Stall - inadvertentCause
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
The pilot struck a small electrical wire during an aerial application swath run and then climbed to evaluate the damage. He then returned to the field and almost struck additional wires. During what the property owner and witness described as an abrupt maneuver to avoid the power lines control was lost and the airplane impacted the terrain.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N503MA
- Reported as
- Cessna A-188
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18801637T
- Airframe hours
- 1,854
- Engine
- Continental 10-520-26, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Abc Air Incorporated, doing business as Mustang Agriculture Inc.
- Registered owner
- Abc Air Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 7, 1990 · 219 hours before
- Departed
- MXA
- Airport
- MXA · Manila Muni
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 23
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 400 total · 150 in this make and model · 300 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.14 inHg
- Observed at
- JBR, 24 nm away