CEN15CA184 · Cessna T188C
Cessna T188C · Accident: dragged wing/rotor/float/other during takeoff
From Rucker Airport (SN29) to Rucker Airport (SN29)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN15CA184
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna T188C
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 188
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N2093J
- Operator
- Rucker Darlene M
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Rucker Airport (SN29), Burdett, KSTo Rucker Airport (SN29), Burdett, KS
- Aircraft age
- About 37 years (built 1978)
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 137: Agricultural
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Takeoff
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Dragged wing/rotor/float/other
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability
- Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
According to the accident pilot, the agricultural airplane was loaded with 120 gallons of product and the fuel tanks were half full. During the takeoff roll about one-third down the runway, he airplane encountered a gust of wind. The airplane veered left and exited the runway into tall grass. The pilot attempted to maneuver the airplane back to the runway to continue the takeoff. The airplane collided with a barbed wire fence and rotated 180 degrees. The responding Federal Aviation Administration inspector reported the airplane sustained substantial damage to the wings, fuselage and empennage. The pilot reported that the airplane had no mechanical malfunctions or failures and the engine was producing power.
Probable cause
The pilot did not maintain directional control of the airplane in gusting wind conditions.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN15CA184
- Event ID
- 20150330X53104
- Case number
- CEN15CA184
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: c654899f69f7628c746ffc214795f0f1a018fe37c88be0709968b6e7f2849c6e; retrieved 2026-09-16T02:11:35.288Z.