- Date
- June 17, 2006, 11:20 local (17:20 UTC)
- Place
- Murtaugh, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3632TSchweizer G-164B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 3, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20060617011899A
- Case key
- 64010
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Probable cause
The pilot's excessive brake application during the landing roll, which resulted in a nose over.
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 he touched down in the agricultural airplane approximately one quarter of the way down the airstrip. He stated that "everything was normal and in a matter of a split second, the aircraft was upside down." He further stated that he felt "applying too much braking and the fact that [the airplane] has a high center of gravity may have contributed to the accident."
Factual narrative
On June 17, 2006, about 1120 mountain daylight time, a Schweizer G-164B agricultural airplane, N3632T, sustained substantial damage when it nosed over during the landing roll at a private airstrip near Murtaugh, Idaho. The commercial pilot, the sole occupant, was not injured. The airplane was registered to and operated by Ken Spray LLC of Twin Falls, Idaho. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed for the local agricultural application flight conducted under 14 CFR Part 137.
The pilot reported that he touched down approximately one quarter of the way down the airstrip. He stated that "everything was normal and in a matter of a split second, the aircraft was upside down." He further stated that he felt "applying too much braking and the fact that [the airplane] has a high center of gravity may have contributed to the accident."
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3632T
- Reported as
- Schweizer G-164B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 772B
- Engine
- Honeywell TPE-331, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Registered owner
- Ken Spray LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Departed
- Murtaugh, ID
- Airport
- NONE · Private, runway 27
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 40
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2
- Flight hours
- 6,000 total · 150 in this make and model · 34 in the last 90 days · 34 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
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 N3632T · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.