- Date
- July 19, 1989, 13:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Schlater, MS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N4579Grumman G-164A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 9, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890719024239A
- Case key
- 32466
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Probable cause
Inadequate preflight planning/preparation by the pilot which resulted in the selection of the wrong runway. The tailwindand dirt bank were considered to be contributing factors.
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 plt began taking off in a quartering tailwind with 1600 lbs of fertilizer & 70 gals of fuel. After lift-off, the acft would not climb. Subsequently, it struck a levee at the end of the strip & nosed over in a rice field. The plt's class ii med cert was dated 5/4/88.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4579
- Reported as
- Grumman G-164A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1063
- Engine
- P&W R-985-AN1, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Agri-Flex, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Agri Flex, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Airport
- Pee Dee Plantation, runway 36, 2,000 × 20 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
- 35
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Invalid Medical for flight
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 3,100 total · 310 in this make and model · 310 in the last 90 days · 140 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GWO, 15 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 N4579 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.