- Date
- June 3, 1987, 08:00 local (13:00 UTC)
- Place
- Sigourney, IA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N21711Cessna 188-B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 2, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 34393
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of engine power(total) - mech failure/malf
Engine assembly - failure,totalFactor
Forced landing
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - ditchFactor
Terrain condition - dirt bank/rising embankmentCause
Analysis
During an unloaded re-positioning flt to begin an aerial application operation, the PIC experienced a total engine failure. A forced ldg was attempted and acft hit a ditch and was substantially damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N21711
- Reported as
- Cessna 188-B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1880984T
- Airframe hours
- 2,610
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Jerome R. Kohlhaas
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 1987 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- IA83 · Livermore, IA
- Destination
- C84 · Sigourney, IA
- Flight plan
- Unknown
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 35
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 2,665 total · 940 in this make and model · 2,600 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 20 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point -0 °F