- Date
- July 18, 1991, 09:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Palouse, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N731YZCessna 188B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910718027939A
- Case key
- 41489
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain proper runway alignment.
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
During the takeoff roll, the pilot of the Cessna 188B, hooked the spray boom on some tall wheat which was growing along the side of the runway. The aircraft veered off the side of the runway and came to a rapid stop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N731YZ
- Reported as
- Cessna 188B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18803274T
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D1B, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Dale E. Schoepflin
- Registered owner
- Dale E. Schoepflin
- Airport
- Unk/Na
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
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 9,000 total · 5,500 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- 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.
Other investigations on N731YZ · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.