- Date
- June 14, 2017, 16:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Salem, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N4877QCessna A188
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 22, 2017
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20170614008309A
- Case key
- 95422
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll, which resulted in the airplane contacting tall grass.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that, during the takeoff roll for an agricultural flight, the airplane drifted left of the runway center, and the left wing and spray boom encountered tall grass. Subsequently, the airplane spun about 270°. The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wings and the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The pilot reported in the Operator/Owner Safety Recommendation section of NTSB Form 6120.1 that the tall grass next to the runway "will be maintained shorter."
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that during the takeoff roll for an agricultural flight, the airplane drifted left of the runway center, and the left wing and spray boom encountered tall grass. Subsequently, the airplane spun approximately 270°. The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wings and the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The pilot reported in the Operator/Owner Safety Recommendation section of the NTSB Form 6120.1 that, the tall grass next to the runway "will be maintained shorter".
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4877Q
- Reported as
- Cessna A188 (B)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18802613T
- Built
- 1976
- Airframe hours
- 11,505.2
- Engine
- Continental IO-550D10B, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Industrial Aviation Services Inc
- Registered owner
- Industrial Aviation Services Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 11, 2017
- Departed
- OR38 · Salem, OR
- Destination
- OR38 · Salem, OR
- Airport
- OR38 · Harchenko Industrial, runway 25, 2,290 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Satellite tracking device
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
- 40
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 25, 2015
- Seat
- Single
- Flight hours
- 2,230 total · 30 in this make and model · 2,100 as pilot in command · 230 in the last 90 days · 109 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.05 inHg
- Observed at
- KSLE, 11 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 2, 2017, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.5 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.