ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 196172
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| Date: | Friday 16 June 2017 |
| Time: | 10:00 |
| Type: |  NZAI Fletcher FU-24-954 Stallion |
| Owner/operator: | Airspread |
| Registration: | VH-EUO |
| MSN: | 3002 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Near Upper Turon, NSW -
 Australia
|
| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Upper Turon, NSW |
| Upper Turon, NSW | |
| Investigating agency: | ATSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The aircraft took off at Upper Turon at 2:00 pm for a routine aerial spraying operation and failed to return. The wreckage of the plane was found on Saturday 17 June 2017. The pilot had died in the crash.
Contributing factors:
- The pilot flew the aircraft into an area of rising terrain that was outside the normal operating area for this job site.
- For reasons that could not be determined, the aircraft aerodynamically stalled and collided with terrain during re-positioning at the end of the application run.
Other findings
- There was no evidence of any defect with the aircraft that would have contributed to the loss of control.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2017/aair/ao-2017-062/
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 25 February 1993 | VH-EUO | 0 | 8km S of Yarragon, VIC | |
sub | |
| Collision with pole or wires | ||||||
Images:
Photo: ATSB
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Jun-2017 04:34 | Pineapple | Added |
| 17-Jun-2017 09:59 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Source, Damage, Narrative, Photo, ] |
| 17-Jun-2017 18:45 | Pineapple | Updated [Total fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
| 17-Jun-2017 18:46 | gerard57 | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 19-Jun-2017 09:19 | Pineapple | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Source] |
| 19-May-2020 19:48 | harro | Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative, Photo, Accident report, ] |
| 07-Feb-2022 02:12 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type] |
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