19790518014059A

Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Bell 206B · Island City, OR · May 18, 1979

Date
May 18, 1979 · 05:45 local
Place
Island City, OR
Phase of flight
Low Level Operations
Operating rules
Agricultural (Part 137)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N59520
NTSB investigation
NTSBSEA79DYM35
Reported as
Bell 206B
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,521 total103 in this make and model100 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 hit a wire while spraying crops.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT HIT A WIRE WHILE SPRAYING CROPS.

NTSB investigation

The NTSB’s investigation of this event, with its probable cause and findings. Matched to this report by N-number and date.