- Date
- July 3, 1994, 16:00 local (21:00 UTC)
- Place
- Rolling Fork, MS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N8820QAero Commander S2R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 26, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940703019419A
- Case key
- 37571
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Probable cause
The loss of engine power for undetermined causes. Contributing to the accident was the unsuitable terrain encountered during the forced landing.
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 reported the engine failed while he was on an agricultural application spray run. He attempted a forced landing to a rice field and the airplane flipped over on landing. No cause for the engine failure was determined.
Factual narrative
On July 3, 1994, about 1600 central daylight time, N8820Q, an Aero Commander S2R, registered to Donnie T. Uzzle, crashed in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, while on a 14 CFR Part 137 aerial application flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and no flight plan was filed for the local flight. The commercial-rated pilot reported no injuries and the airplane was substantially damaged. The flight originated about 15 minutes earlier.
The pilot stated that he was applying chemicals to a field when the engine failed. He attempted a forced landing to a rice field and the airplane flipped over on landing. Local FAA personnel examined the airplane and no cause for the engine failure was determined.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8820Q
- Reported as
- Aero Commander S2R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1520R
- Airframe hours
- 4,488
- Engine
- P&W R-1320-AN-1, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Registered owner
- Uzzle, Donnie T.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 24, 1994 · 6 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
- 51
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter, Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 6,600 total · 350 in this make and model · 4,300 as pilot in command · 55 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 93 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GWO, 22 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 N8820Q · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.