- Date
- August 5, 1997, 13:10 local (18:10 UTC)
- Place
- Cadaretta, MS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N731VRCessna A188B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 7, 1998
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19970805025959A
- Case key
- 38323
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Probable cause
a hard landing resulting in the airplane departing the runway and impacting with a tree.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The flight was returning to the home airstrip, empty, after completion of an aerial application. The airplane touched down on the grass strip, bounced, departed the left side of the runway and struck a tree. The pilot returned the NTSB Form 6120.1/2, and did not complete the narrative statement portion of the form. Examination of the airframe and engine did not reveal any discrepancies.
Factual narrative
On August 5, 1997, about 1310 central daylight time, a Cessna A188B, N731VR, registered to a private owner, crashed while landing at a private airstrip near Cadaretta, Mississippi. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and no flight plan was filed for the Title 14 CFR Part 137, aerial application flight. The commercial-rated pilot was not injured. The airplane was substantially damaged. The flight had originated earlier in the day from the same airstrip.
The flight was returning to the home airstrip, empty, after completion of an aerial application. The airplane touched down on the grass strip, bounced, departed the left side of the runway and struck a tree.
The pilot returned the NTSB Form 6120.1/2, and did not complete the narrative statement portion of the form. Examination of the airframe and engine did not reveal any discrepancies.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N731VR
- Reported as
- Cessna A188B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18803194T
- Airframe hours
- 5,000
- Engine
- Continental IO-520D, 280 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Registered owner
- Bob Davis
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 30, 1997 · 80 hours before
- Airport
- Worthy Airstrip
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
- 71
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 20,000 total · 600 in this make and model · 20,000 as pilot in command · 200 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GWO, 35 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 N731VR · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.