- Date
- July 9, 1991, 06:00 local (13:00 UTC)
- Place
- Crows Landing, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6628QGrumman G-164B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report March 24, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910709026719A
- Case key
- 27279
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Probable cause
The pilot Landing his airplane erroneously on the wrong Landing surface. Factors in this accident were: sunglare and its interference with the pilot's vision and the soft terrain.
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 touchdown, the aircraft dug into the soil and nosed over. The pilot reported that he was Landing into the morning sun. He said that he landed on what looked like the 'work strip', but he was actually Landing on a strip of land which was parallel to the work strip. The soil was soft and uneven due to it being recently plowed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6628Q
- Reported as
- Grumman G-164B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 154B
- Engine
- P&W R-1340-AN1, 650 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Bettencourt Flying Svc., Inc.
- Registered owner
- Bettencourt Flying Svc., Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- NONE · Delhi, CA
- Airport
- C06 · Crows Landing
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
- 51
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 9,000 total · 3,500 in this make and model · 160 in the last 90 days · 50 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- 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 N6628Q · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.