# Incident 20080502834099I: Pitts S2B, May 2, 2008

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: May 2, 2008, 18:55 local time
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Low Level Operations
- Operating rules: Agricultural (Part 137)
- Operator: TKEG
- Aircraft: N9414R, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N9414R-2020-02-28) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Snow S2B (registry code 8380204, https://openairdocs.org/model/snow-s2b) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Pratt & Whitney R-985 series (registry code 52008, https://openairdocs.org/engine/pratt-whitney-r-985-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PITTS S2B
- Reported engine: PWA R985AN1
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 1
- Pilot flight hours: 15,000 total, 1,000 in this make and model, 120 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20080502834099I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) ON MAY 2, 2008, AT APPROXIMATELY 18:55 HOURS, A SNOW S2B, OWNED AND OPERATED BY ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^, CRASHED IN FIELD BETWEEN WESLACO AND HARLIGEN OFF OF HWY 281.  DAY VFR CONDITIONS PREVAILED.  THE AIRCRAFT SUSTAINED MINOR DAMAGE.  THE PILOT SUSTAINED NO INJURIES AND THERE WERE NO PASSENGERS ONBOARD.  THE PILOT, ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^ IS THE HOLDER OF COMMERCIAL CERTIFICATE NUMBER ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^?.  THE FLIGHT ORIGINATED AT BLUE TOWN STRIP AT APPROXIMATELY 18:20 HOURS AND WAS COMPLETING A SWATH OF SPRAYING WHEN THE ENGINE DEVELOPED AN OIL LEAK SPRAYING OIL OVER THE WINDSHIELD.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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