- Date
- July 1, 1990, 17:20 local (22:20 UTC)
- Place
- Marshalltown, IA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N70147Cessna 188
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900701023499A
- Case key
- 35012
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Probable cause
Inadequate visual lookout and clearance not obtained.
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
While conducting an aerial application operation the aircraft collided with power lines, then began an uncontrolled descent striking the terrain, and cartwheeling to stop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N70147
- Reported as
- Cessna 188
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18801850T
- Airframe hours
- 2,371
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Dale L. Bittner, doing business as Dakota Airspray Inc.
- Registered owner
- Dakota Airspray & Carl Jackson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 9, 1990 · 10 hours before
- Airport
- NONE
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
- 43
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,000 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 1,000 as pilot in command · 150 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ALO, 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.