- Date
- May 7, 1983, 05:15 local (12:15 UTC)
- Place
- Lodi, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N6530KGrumman 164B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 23704
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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
The aircraft was rolling for takeoff at dawn when it collided with another crop duster taxiing in the opposite directionthe aircraft taking off had rolled about 100 feet when the pilot saw a red light on the runway and aborted the takeoff and attempted to stop or evade the light. All efforts to turn or stop were not successful in avoiding a collision and atan estimated 5 mph under heavy braking the aircraft nosed down and collided at the same time. The fuel tanks of both aircraft ruptured and fire erupted immediately. The taxiing crop duster was not being operated incident to flight.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6530K
- Reported as
- Grumman 164B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 533B
- Airframe hours
- 2,027
- Engine
- P&W R-985, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Phillips Aero Co.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 1, 1983 · 92 hours before
- Airport
- 103 · Lodi, runway 8, 3,090 × 24 ft, asphalt
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
- 32
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 4,668 total · 500 in this make and model · 4,381 as pilot in command · 150 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 48 °F