- Date
- July 17, 1991, 20:00 local (Jul 18, 1991, 03:00 UTC)
- Place
- Pullman, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N6657QGrumman G-164-B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Status
- Completed · report February 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910717027959A
- Case key
- 41488
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain runway alignment. Factors include high vegetation growing close to the runway.
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 of the Grumman G-164B failed to keep the aircraft aligned with the center of the runway, during the takeoff roll, and hooked the spray boom on some tall wheat, growing beside the airstrip. The aircraft was pulled into a hard right deceleration.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6657Q
- Reported as
- Grumman G-164-B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 183B
- Engine
- P&W R1340 AN-2, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Dennis Flying Service Inc.
- Registered owner
- Dennis Flying Service Inc.
- Airport
- None, runway 23, 3,300 × 60 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
- 43
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 8,800 total · 5,000 in this make and model · 8,700 as pilot in command · 400 in the last 90 days · 150 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °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.