- Date
- September 21, 1990, 15:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Vicksburg, MS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N86405Cessna A188B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 2, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900921041739A
- Case key
- 32702
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to avoid a mud hole on the runway during the ground roll to takeoff.
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 stated that during the ground roll to takeoff, after raising the tail, the rt side of the acft began to sink. The main gear then broke out from under the acft causing it to veer off the lt side of the rwy. According to an FAA inspector who examined the airstrip, a mud hole was located on the rwy at the location where the tail wheel would be lifted off. He further stated that the plt got too close to the soft spot & the rt main landing gear attach bolt broke after the gear travelled into the mud hole. Metallurgical examination of the failed landing gear attach bolt revealed that it failed due to overload.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N86405
- Reported as
- Cessna A188B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18802012T
- Engine
- Continental IO-520D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Registered owner
- Crosby Simmons
- Airport
- NONE · Simmons Flying Service, runway 18, 2,600 × 50 ft, grass/turf
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
- 54
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 12,000 total · 2,500 in this make and model · 2,000 as pilot in command · 250 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- JAN, 51 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.