Snow 600-S2C N1640S
13 March 1998 · Bickleton, Washington, United States · No injuries
Summary
On 13 March 1998 at about 18:30 local time, a Snow 600-S2C registered N1640S was involved in an accident near Bickleton, Washington, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.
The record
- Date
- at 18:30
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Bickleton, Washington, United States
- Coordinates
- 45.9192, -120.1904
- Aircraft
- Snow 600-S2C
- Registration
- N1640S
- Category
- Airplane
- Engines
- 1
- Operator
- Not recorded
- Operating rule
- Part 137: Agricultural
- Purpose of flight
- Aerial Application
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- Donoho Road → Unknown
- Aircraft damage
- Destroyed
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- SEA98LA054
People
Nobody was injured.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Probable cause
The pilot's mismanagement of the fuel which led to fuel exhaustion. A related factor was unsuitable terrain.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.
Read the full NTSB narrative
The pilot took off 50 minutes to 1 hour before the accident, and was spraying a field at the time of the accident. He reported that on the last pass, as he was pulling up, the engine lost power in a left turn. He performed a forced landing onto rough and uneven terrain; and the aircraft was substantially damaged. The aircraft salvage crew who recovered the aircraft reported that they found 3 gallons of fuel in the aircraft's left wing tank and no fuel in the right wing tank (the aircraft has a 33-gallon tank in each wing, of which 6.5 gallons in each tank is unusable.)
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
Other Snow 600 accidents
| Date | Aircraft | Location | Operator | Outcome | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Jul 2001 | Snow 600-S2C | Plainfield, Wisconsin, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 13 Aug 1994 | Snow 600B | Grundy Center, Iowa, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 25 May 1994 | Snow 600-S2C | Bancroft, Wisconsin, United States | Farmers Flying Service, Inc. | No injuries | - |
| 22 Sep 1993 | Snow 600-S2C | Surprise, Arizona, United States | - | Minor injuries | - |
| 30 Jul 1988 | Snow 600-S2C | Almyra, Arkansas, United States | James R. Perry | Fatal | 2 |
| 14 Nov 2008 | Snow 600 | Nashville, Tennessee, United States | Ewing Dusting Service | No injuries | - |
Other accidents in this area
| Date | Aircraft | Location | Operator | Outcome | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Mar 1998 | Cessna P210N | Royal City, Washington, United States | - | Fatal | 3 |
| 4 Jun 1998 | Cessna 172N | Prindle, Washington, United States | - | Fatal | 3 |
| 9 Apr 1998 | Cessna 150L | Seattle, Washington, United States | - | Minor injuries | - |
| 30 Jul 1998 | Embraer EMB-135 | Moses Lake, Washington, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 19 Jul 1998 | Cessna 172P | Seattle, Washington, United States | Wings Aloft Inc. | No injuries | - |
| 24 Jul 1998 | Pilgrim STEEN SKYBOLT | Curtis, Washington, United States | - | Minor injuries | - |