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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Airtrc AT-400A · Earle, AR · May 20, 1988

Date: May 20, 1988 · 07:30 local
Place: Earle, AR
Phase of flight: Low Level Operations
Operating rules: Agricultural (Part 137)
Damage: Minor damage
Aircraft: N3159S
Reported as: Airtrc AT400A
People aboard: 1
Fatal injuries: 0
Pilot’s flight hours: 10,000 total200 in this make and model200 in the last 90 days

N3159SRegistration cancelled Apr 16, 2018 · Air Tractor AT-400AS/N 400A-0472 · Built 1983 Airframe modelAir Tractor AT-400A Engine modelWalter M601E-11Turbo-prop

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.

Left main landing gear struck a levee on a spray run and collapsed when the airplane landed.

As the FAA filed it

LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR STRUCK A LEVEE ON A SPRAY RUN AND COLLAPSED WHEN THE AIRPLANE LANDED.