- Date
- July 30, 1988, 08:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Robbins, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3633CSchweizer G-164B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 29, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880730028519A
- Case key
- 25771
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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
During landing roll, after an aerial application flight, the sprayboom became entangled in weeds. The airplane ground looped and nosed over. There were no reported mechanical failures or malfunctions of the airplane at the time of the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3633C
- Reported as
- Schweizer G-164B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 776B
- Airframe hours
- 1,301
- Engine
- P&W R-1340-AN1, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Gregg L. Foster
- Registered owner
- Sunrise Dusters Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 15, 1988 · 335 hours before
- Departed
- Suffer City, CA
- Airport
- Private Dirt Strip, runway 18, 5,280 × 55 ft, dirt
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
- 42
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 12,000 total · 1,500 in this make and model · 11,700 as pilot in command · 250 in the last 90 days · 75 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MYV, 12 nm away
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 N3633C · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.