19961031033119A

Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Airtrc AT-502 · Throckmorton, TX · October 31, 1996

Date
October 31, 1996 · 16:00 local
Place
Throckmorton, TX
Phase of flight
Low Level Operations
Operating rules
Agricultural (Part 137)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N4549Z
Reported as
Airtrc AT502
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
18,280 total4,323 in this make and model200 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.

Struck highline wire on pullup from spray run. Landed. Nosed over. Burned. (-23) pilot was coming out of a pass over field and attempting to climb, when the prop and rudder made contact with highline wire causing pilot to lose control and crash. Aircraft landed in field and flipped over on back and was destroyed. A/c burned upon crashed.

As the FAA filed it

STRUCK HIGHLINE WIRE ON PULLUP FROM SPRAY RUN. LANDED. NOSED OVER. BURNED. (-23) PILOT WAS COMING OUT OF A PASS OVER FIELD AND ATTEMPTING TO CLIMB, WHEN THE PROP AND RUDDER MADE CONTACT WITH HIGHLINE WIRE CAUSING PILOT TO LOSE CONTROL AND CRASH. AIRCRAFT LANDED IN FIELD AND FLIPPED OVER ON BACK AND WAS DESTROYED. A/C BURNED UPON CRASHED.