- Date
- May 26, 2024, 10:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Rome, OR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9853Grumman Acft ENG Cor-Schweizer G-164A
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20240526005779A
- Case key
- 194376
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control during landing.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that while landing on a gravel road, the right main tire sank into soft terrain along the right side of the road. Subsequently, the airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted. During the accident sequence, the airplane sustained substantial damage to the upper wings and vertical stabilizer. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9853
- Reported as
- Grumman Acft ENG Cor-Schweizer G-164A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1291
- Built
- 1974
- Engine
- Garrett AiResearch TPE-331, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Oregon Trail Air Service LLC
- Registered owner
- Oregon Trail Air Service LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS, Stall warning system
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
- 52
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Waiver time limited special
- Last flight review
- March 26, 2023
- Seat
- Single
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 14,372 total · 500 in this make and model · 14,000 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 7 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 30 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.09 inHg
- Observed at
- KREO, 18 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KREO 261552Z AUTO 07007KT 13/M01 A3009 RMK AO1 SLP174 T01331011=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 22, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.2 MB in all.
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 N9853 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.