- Date
- June 12, 1990, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Fisher, AR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N5257Grumman G-164A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 29, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900612019879A
- Case key
- 34997
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Probable cause
Partial loss of engine power for an undetermined reason.
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 commerical pilot said that shortly after takeoff, he heard a loud bang followed by a continued banging and rattling noise from the engine. When the acft began to lose altitude, the plt dumped his load, but the acft continued its uncontrolled descent, hit hard in a three point attitude, then flipped inverted. Shortly after the plt egressed, the aircraft began burning and was destroyed. Due to the severity of the fire and lack of available information, no determination was made as to why the engine lost power.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5257
- Reported as
- Grumman G-164A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 541
- Engine
- P&W R-985-AN1, 450 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Registered owner
- Secrease, Jerry
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Departed
- Fisher, AR
- Airport
- Brown Pvt, runway 27, 2,300 × 60 ft, dirt
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
- 52
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,392 total · 2,109 in this make and model · 5,811 as pilot in command · 160 in the last 90 days · 110 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JBR, 20 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 N5257 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.