- Date
- August 5, 1989, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Canton, MS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N21895Cessna 188
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 28, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890805027889A
- Case key
- 32475
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Probable cause
The pilot's attempted flight in known adverse weather conditions. Factors related to the accident were: adverse weather conditions and the presence of the parked aircraft near the runway.
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 rprtd that while taking off (north), the acft rolled about 400 to 500 ft, then encountered a gust of wind & veered left. Subsequently, it collided with an unoccupied acft that was parked about 50 ft from the edge of the rwy. At that time, a thunderstorm cell was located nearby. The plt estimated the wind was from 260 deg a 15 gusting 18 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N21895
- Reported as
- Cessna 188
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18801106
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Cochran Flying Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Airport
- runway 36, 3,000 × 24 ft, macadam
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, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 7,100 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 400 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JAN, 18 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.