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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna T188C · Ames, IA · August 10, 1988

Date
August 10, 1988 · 13:46 local
Place
Ames, IA
Phase of flight
Low Level Operations
Operating rules
Agricultural (Part 137)
Operator
ATGG
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2874J
Reported as
Cessna T188C
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
4,500 total1,200 in this make and model300 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 misjudged height of corn on spraying pass. Main gear struck corn. Aircraft was pulled into the cornfield.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT MISJUDGED HEIGHT OF CORN ON SPRAYING PASS. MAIN GEAR STRUCK CORN. AIRCRAFT WAS PULLED INTO THE CORNFIELD.