ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 285709
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| Date: | Wednesday 13 August 2008 |
| Time: | 16:30 LT |
| Type: |  Air Tractor AT-502B |
| Owner/operator: | Delta Dusters Inc. |
| Registration: | N61267 |
| MSN: | 502B-0303 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1995 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 6550 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Tunica, Mississippi -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Sledge, MS |
| Tunica, MS | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot of the agricultural airplane flew along a set of power lines, which ran over a wooded area that restricted his ability to see both sides of a field that he was going to spray. After flying along the power lines, he determined that he had enough clearance to "fit under the wire." He thought that it looked "good," and began his spray run on the east side of a field passing under the power lines without incident. He then began a spray run on the west side of the field, but as he approached the power lines he realized that the "wire was too low to go under." Rather than risk hooking his main landing gear on the wires and flipping the airplane onto its back, he chose to "fly into the wire." The airplane received substantial damage to the propeller, engine, empennage, wings and landing gear.
Probable Cause: The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from the power lines during low-altitude maneuvers.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB NYC08CA279
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 27 August 2015 | N61267 | Red Willow Aviation Spraying Inc | 0 | Monroe, NE | |
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| Gear collapse | ||||||
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 02-Oct-2022 13:52 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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