- Date
- July 19, 1989, 05:15 local (12:15 UTC)
- Place
- Hermiston, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N6632QGrumman 164B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report January 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890719024699A
- Case key
- 41053
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Probable cause
The airport owners failure to mark a hidden hazard.
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 taxied through what he thought was only a puddle of water. It turned out to be a deep hole filled with water that had washed out due to a broken underground water pipe. Private strip.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6632Q
- Reported as
- Grumman 164B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1598
- Engine
- P&W R-1340, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Thomas H. White
- Airport
- S & K Farm, runway 9, 5,000 × 100 ft, gravel
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
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 10,000 total · 8,000 in this make and model · 10,000 as pilot in command · 300 in the last 90 days · 100 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °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.