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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Weatherly 620B · Miles City, MT · August 10, 2011

Date
August 10, 2011 · 13:45 local
Place
Miles City, MT
Phase of flight
Maneuver
Operating rules
Agricultural (Part 137)
Operator
5RFG
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2037E
Reported as
Weatherly 620B
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney R-985 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Commercial pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
3,624 total185 in this make and model185 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 lost power on spray run. Pilot could not maintain altitude and executed an emergency landing in the adjacent field. Minor damage to aircraft and no injuries to pilot.

As the FAA filed it

AIRCRAFT LOST POWER ON SPRAY RUN. PILOT COULD NOT MAINTAIN ALTITUDE AND EXECUTED AN EMERGENCY LANDING IN THE ADJACENT FIELD. MINOR DAMAGE TO AIRCRAFT AND NO INJURIES TO PILOT.