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Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-25-235 · Miles City, MT · June 22, 1978

Date
June 22, 1978 · 20:00 local
Place
Miles City, MT
Phase of flight
Roll-Out (Fixed Wing)
Operating rules
Agricultural (Part 137)
Aircraft
N8651L
Reported as
Piper PA25235
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
416 total150 in this make and model0 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Pilot landing on a road caught the spray boom on high vegetation. Aircraft turned abruptly, gear collapsed.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LANDING ON A ROAD CAUGHT THE SPRAY BOOM ON HIGH VEGETATION. AIRCRAFT TURNED ABRUPTLY, GEAR COLLAPSED.