- Date
- June 7, 1989, 09:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Wynne, AR
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8063KGulfstream-Schweizer G-164B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 19, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890607014509A
- Case key
- 34806
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Probable cause
Unsuitable terrain selected by the pilot. A contributing factor was the rough/uneven landing area.
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 aircraft was being used on an aerial application operation. The pilot stated that after returning to the strip to reload, the left main wheel struck a rough place on the runway, which caused the plane to nose down. Subsequently, the propeller struck the ground & the aircraft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8063K
- Reported as
- Gulfstream-Schweizer G-164B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 550B
- Engine
- P&W R-1340-AN1, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Burnette, Norman L., doing business as Burnette Flying Service
- Registered owner
- Burnett, Norman
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Departed
- Wynne, AR
- Airport
- NONE, runway 27, 2,800 × 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
- 31
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,500 total · 175 in this make and model · 2,000 as pilot in command · 200 in the last 90 days · 175 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 18,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LIT, 50 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 N8063K · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.