- Date
- August 19, 1990, 06:10 local (13:10 UTC)
- Place
- Westley, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N6774QGrumman-Schweizer G-164B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900819034019A
- Case key
- 26564
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure maintain obstacle clearance.
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 pilot of an agriculture aircraft collided with an eight foot high chain link fence shortly after takeoff from an airstrip to begin an aerial application. The aircraft hit the ground, flipped and caught fire. There was no evidence of a mechanical malfunction nor did the pilot report any.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6774Q
- Reported as
- Grumman-Schweizer G-164B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 284B
- Airframe hours
- 3,540
- Engine
- P&W R-985-AN14B, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Registered owner
- Valley Cropduster, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 17, 1990 · 200 hours before
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
- 27
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 1,796 total · 1,400 in this make and model · 1,614 as pilot in command · 282 in the last 90 days · 119 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Lowest ceiling
- None
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 N6774Q · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.