- Date
- April 27, 1990, 10:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lockwood, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6788KGrumman G-164B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900427013229A
- Case key
- 34973
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Probable cause
Touchdown point not attained and go-around not performed by the pilot in command. Contributing factors were a wet, grass runway.
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.
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - grassFactor
Terrain condition - wetFactor
Proper touchdown point - not attainedCause
Go-around - not performedCause
Terrain condition - ditch
Analysis
While attempting to land on a private, wet grass strip, during an aerial application operation, the pilot was unable to stop the aircraft and it collided with a ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6788K
- Reported as
- Grumman G-164B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 478B
- Engine
- P&W R-1340-AN1, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- T And R Ag Service, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Departed
- LLU · Lamar, MO
- Destination
- MU27
- Airport
- MU27 · Woodfield, runway 18, 2,600 × 100 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,000 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.