- Date
- June 2, 2006, 09:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Grand View, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5047XAyres S-2R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 3, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- Case key
- 64071
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadvertent reduction of turbine engine power to the reverse position while landing on a desert road. A factor was the fence adjacent to the road.
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 pilot reported that while landing on a narrow desert road with deep ditches, he attempted to reduce the turbine engine power to idle. He said that he inadvertently went into full reverse, and subsequently veered left into an adjacent fence.
Factual narrative
On June 2, 2006, at approximately 0930 mountain daylight time, an Ayres Corporation S-2R, N5047X, was substantially damaged during a landing attempt on a dirt road near Grand View, Idaho. The commercial pilot, the sole occupant on the airplane, was not injured. Bybee Air Service Inc., Nyssa, Oregon, was operating the airplane under Title 14 CFR Part 137. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the aerial application, cross-country flight which had originated from Boise, Idaho, approximately 30 minutes before the accident. A flight plan had not been filed.
The pilot reported that while landing on a narrow desert road with deep ditches, he attempted to reduce the turbine engine power to idle. He said that he inadvertently went into full reverse, and subsequently veered left into an adjacent fence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5047X
- Reported as
- Ayres S-2R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2413R
- Airframe hours
- 3,880
- Engine
- Garrett TPE 331, 776 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Registered owner
- Bybee Air Service Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Departed
- U76 · Mountain Home, ID
- Destination
- NONE · Grand View, ID
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
- 63
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 1, 2006
- Seat
- Single
- Flight hours
- 17,262 total · 276 in this make and model · 17,093 as pilot in command · 89 in the last 90 days · 89 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 0° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- BOI, 35 nm away