ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 238738
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| Date: | Monday 27 July 2020 |
| Time: | 11:08 LT |
| Type: |  Air Tractor AT-401 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N9190Q |
| MSN: | 401-0925 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1989 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 4014 hours |
| Engine model: | P&W 1340 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Kit Carson County, north of Bethune, CO -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Burlington-Kit Carson County Airport, CO (KITR) |
| Burlington, CO | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot flew the agricultural airplane to the designated spray area. He made 3-4 passes on a corn field and surveyed the area for guy-wires (a tower was adjacent to the field). He flew multiple passes around the tower to look for guy-wires but he was not able to get an exact location on the tower's guy-wires and started spraying the field from south to north, and then west to east. After spraying about 4 passes in the middle of the field and 3 passes on the west end of the field the airplane struck a guy-wire with the right wing. After the airplane hit the wire, the pilot had trouble maintaining altitude. The airplane collided through a single set of power lines and struck the ground, resulting in substantial damage to the wings, fuselage, and empennage.
Probable Cause: The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from guy-wires during low-altitude agricultural operations.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB CEN20CA311
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 22 August 1995 | N9190Q | Jeffrey D. Hunt | 0 | Taft, TX | |
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Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Jul-2020 23:17 | Geno | Added |
| 28-Jul-2020 13:29 | Captain Adam | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 28-Jul-2020 13:34 | Captain Adam | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 02-Mar-2021 18:55 | rudy | Updated [[Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Source, Damage, Narrative]] |
| 08-Jul-2022 05:27 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative, Category, Accident report] |
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