- Date
- March 2, 1992, 07:00 local (13:00 UTC)
- Place
- Gillette, AR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9780Grumman G-164A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 23, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920302004849A
- Case key
- 18449
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Probable cause
The unsuitable terrain selected by the pilot.
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 a daylight landing on a grass strip, the landing gear sank into the soft, wet, ground and the airplane nosed over to the inverted position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9780
- Reported as
- Grumman G-164A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1275
- Airframe hours
- 6,600
- Engine
- P&W R-1340-AN1, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Trites Air Service
- Registered owner
- Trites Air Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 18, 1991 · 40 hours before
- Airport
- NONE · Private, runway 27, 2,600 × 60 ft, grass/turf
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
- 43
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 5,000 total · 1,600 in this make and model · 4,935 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 48 °F
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 N9780 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.