ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 298801
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| Date: | Thursday 29 June 2000 |
| Time: | 11:30 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-36-285 |
| Owner/operator: | Rhodes Crop Care, Inc. |
| Registration: | N57596 |
| MSN: | 367560131 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | BOVINA, Texas -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The agricultural airplane, carrying a full load of fertilizer, 'could not fly out of ground effect' during takeoff from a private airstrip. As the airplane neared the end of the airstrip and encroached on an irrigation system, the pilot pulled the nose of the airplane up and initiated a load dump. The pilot stated that he did not put the dump handle in the emergency dump position, and the fertilizer 'was not dumped quick enough.' The airplane stalled after clearing the irrigation system and impacted the ground. The density altitude, at the time of the accident, was calculated by the NTSB investigator-in-charge to be approximately 5,730 feet. The pilot reported that a 'lighter load for conditions' would have prevented this accident.
Probable Cause: The pilot's inadequate preflight planning, which resulted in the pilot exceeding the aircraft's takeoff performance. Factors were the high density altitude and the pilot's delayed load jettison.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB FTW00LA189
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 15-Oct-2022 22:49 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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