- Date
- May 28, 1994, 06:15 local (13:15 UTC)
- Place
- Touchet, WA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5642XRockwell S-2R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 2, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940528013139A
- Case key
- 41934
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions. The wind gusts were a factor.
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 noted that the flight and previous landings were all normal. On his final landing, he touched down at the end of the runway, and started to swerve to the right near mid-field. He reported that he applied full left brake but the airplane continued off the runway to the right where it nosed over in the soft dirt. A witness noticed gusts that were not evident to the pilot at the time of landing.
Factual narrative
On May 28, 1994, approximately 0615 Pacific daylight time, a Rockwell S-2R, N5642X, sustained substantial damage during landing at a private airstrip near Touchet, Washington. The commercial pilot, who was engaged in aerial application activities, sustained minor injuries. There was no fire and no ELT was on board the aircraft.
The pilot stated that he landed, bounced a couple times, drifted right into a soft plowed field, and the aircraft nosed over onto its back, damaging the left wing, top of the canopy, and the propeller.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5642X
- Reported as
- Rockwell S-2R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1842R
- Airframe hours
- 3,949
- Engine
- Curtis Wright R-1820-97, 1,200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Garbe, Duane M. And Carol A.
- Registered owner
- Garbe, Duane M. And Carol A.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 26, 1994 · 149 hours before
- Airport
- Touchet-Hilltop, runway 28, 1,320 × 22 ft, asphalt
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
- 46
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 6,317 total · 569 in this make and model · 6,092 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 8 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.