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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Airtrc AT401 · Harlingen, TX · June 18, 1993

Date
June 18, 1993 · 11:50 local
Place
Harlingen, TX
Airport
Rio Grande Valley International Airport
Phase of flight
Low Level Operations
Operating rules
Agricultural (Part 137)
Operator
EOTG
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N7179A
Reported as
Airtrc AT401
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
20,000 total12,000 in this make and model312 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.

Aircraft struck a powerline while crop dusting a field. Flew back to airport and landed safely.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT STRUCK A POWERLINE WHILE CROP DUSTING A FIELD. FLEW BACK TO AIRPORT AND LANDED SAFELY.