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Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Bell 206B · Barton, AL · March 8, 1996

Date
March 8, 1996 · 19:36 local
Place
Barton, AL
Phase of flight
Low Level Operations
Operating rules
Agricultural (Part 137)
Operator
SJYG
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N5015T
Reported as
Bell 206B
Reported engine
Allison 250C20B
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
8,272 total2,925 in this make and model171 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.

Spraying trees along power line. Struck a hidden wire at 100FT AGL. Crashed and burned. Dusk and haze factors.

As the FAA filed it

SPRAYING TREES ALONG POWER LINE. STRUCK A HIDDEN WIRE AT 100FT AGL. CRASHED AND BURNED. DUSK AND HAZE FACTORS.