- Date
- July 27, 1993, 10:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Pray, MT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N9836ACessna 195
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930727026029A
- Case key
- 43044
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Probable cause
The PIC failed to maintain directional control. A factor relating to the accident was the tailwind weather condition.
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 initiated a takeoff on rwy 3, and the acft swerved off the rwy during ground roll and impacted a ditch. There was a light wind from the south at the time of the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9836A
- Reported as
- Cessna 195
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1957529
- Airframe hours
- 5,367
- Engine
- Jacobs R-755-B, 275 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Diehl, Donald A.
- Registered owner
- Diehl, Donald A.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 12, 1993 · 10 hours before
- Destination
- MBG · Mobridge, SD
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- NONE · Flying Y Airstrip, runway 3, 6,000 × 20 ft, macadam
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
- 64
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,960 total · 507 in this make and model · 1,807 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LVM, 18 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.