- Date
- July 24, 1991, 14:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Hamer, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6702QGrumman G-164A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 23, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910724032089A
- Case key
- 41497
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain runway aligment. Factors include high vegetation, and an inadverent ground loop/swerve.
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 gruman G-164A was landingg at a private agricultural airstrip, when the spray boom contacted some tall wheat growing near the edge of the runway. The pilot stated that just as the tailwheel was being lowered to the ground, the left wing spray boom struck the wheat, causing the aircraft to turn sharply to the let. The aircraft the began to slide sideways, eventually collapsing the right main gear.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6702Q
- Reported as
- Grumman G-164A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1707
- Airframe hours
- 1,185
- Engine
- Garrett TPE3312201A, 715 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Overland Ag Inc
- Registered owner
- Overland Ag Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 23, 1991 · 200 hours before
- Airport
- Larsen Farms, runway 18, 3,000 × 50 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
- 28
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 3,256 total · 350 in this make and model · 3,200 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °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 N6702Q · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.