- Date
- July 2, 1988, 14:50 local (21:50 UTC)
- Place
- Davis, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5224SSnow AT-301
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 29, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880702025109A
- Case key
- 25769
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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
At the end of an aerial application flight, en route to home base, the engine quit. The pilot made an emergency landing in a field, where during the landing roll the airplane collided with a bale of hay and nosed over. Inspection of the engine revealed that the number five cylinder skirt had broken off.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5224S
- Reported as
- Snow AT-301
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 301-0125
- Engine
- P&W R-1340-AN1, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Watts Arigucltural Ave., doing business as Grower'S Air Service
- Registered owner
- Medlock Dusters
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 2, 1988 · 49 hours before
- Departed
- Davis, CA
- Destination
- Woodland, CA
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
- 66
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine sea, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 31,700 total · 31,460 as pilot in command · 215 in the last 90 days · 98 in the last 30 days · 11 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 100 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.