- Date
- May 6, 1995, 08:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Gerome, AR
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8025YWSK PZL Mielec M-18A Dromader
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 24, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19950506010859A
- Case key
- 19410
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Probable cause
The pilot's use of unsuitable terrain for landing.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
During landing roll, following completion of an aerial application flight, the aircraft entered a soft area on the sod/gravel strip and nosed over. According to the pilot, there had been rain earlier and the strip had developed a soft area not readily discernable.
Factual narrative
On May 6, 1995, at 0830 central daylight time, a WSK PZL Mielec M-18A Dromader, N8025Y, sustained substantial damage when it nosed over during landing roll at Gerome, Arkansas. The pilot was not injured on this local area CFR Part 137 flight and no flight plan was filed. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed.
According to the pilot, while on landing roll at the single runway, company airstrip, he encountered a soft area towards the end of the sod/gravel runway. He could not keep the tail wheel down and the aircraft nosed over. He said that there had been a considerable amount of precipitation earlier and that the runway had apparently developed a soft area which was not readily discernable.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8025Y
- Reported as
- WSK PZL Mielec M-18A Dromader (M-18A DROM)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1202509
- Engine
- PZL-Kalisz AS Z-62IR-M18, 1,000 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Registered owner
- Delta Harvest, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Departed
- AR
- Airport
- Delta Harvest (Private), runway 27, 2,800 × 80 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
- 35
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 7,500 total · 500 in this make and model · 7,500 as pilot in command · 120 in the last 90 days · 60 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 61 °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.