# Accident 20130719012309A: Air Tractor Inc AT-400, Steward, IL, July 19, 2013

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 19, 2013, 08:07 local time
- Place: Steward, IL
- Damage: Destroyed
- Phase of flight: Other, Specify
- Operating rules: Agricultural (Part 137)
- Operator: W3GG
- Location: 41.8711° N, 89.0183° W: From the FAA
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.8711&lon=-89.0183&mi=10
- Aircraft: N155HF, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N155HF-2015-09-14) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Air Tractor AT-400 (registry code 0390202, https://openairdocs.org/model/air-tractor-at-400) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: AIR TRACTOR INC AT-400
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 1
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 8,647 total, 1,450 in this make and model, 120 in the last 90 days
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB CEN13LA425](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN13LA425) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20130719012309A

## Narrative

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

AIRCRAFT CRASHED IN CORN FIELD AT APPROXIMATELY 08:07 CDT ON JULY 19, 2013.  ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE FIRST RESPONDER, JORDAN JACKSON, OFFICE: ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^, PILOT STATED HE DEPARTED C73 (DIXON) AT APPROXIMATELY 07:30 A.M. AND SPRAYED 145 ACRES IN THE VICINITY OF DIXON, IL.  PILOT THEN FLEW TO ACCIDENT SITE TO CONDUCT APPLICATION OF 150 ACRES.  PILOT STATED TO TROOPER THAT HE WAS INFORMED BY WOODLEY AERIAL LEASING, LLC THAT THERE WERE TALL TOWERS NEAR THE APPLICATION SITE.  PILOT ALSO INFORMED TROOPER HE DID ONE SURVEY PASS BEFORE BEGINNING APPLICATION.

PILOT FLEW FROM WEST TO EAST TO BEGIN HIS SECOND SWATH.  PILOT STATED AIRCRAFT ALTITUDE WAS 50 AGL, AND AIRCRAFT  SPEED WAS 140 KTS.  PILOT THEN STATED HE SAW A GUY WIRE DIRECTLY IN HIS WINDSCREEN.  AIRCRAFT APPEARS TO HAVE HIT THE WIRE STRAIGHT-ON.

AIRCRAFT CRASHED IN CORN FIELD JUST EAST OF THE GUY WIRES AND TOWERS.  AIRCRAFT DESTROYED.  POST CRASH FIRE DID OCCUR.  PILOT EVACUATED AIRCRAFT UNDER HIS OWN POWER AND RECEIVED A COUPLE OF BROKEN RIBS AND CUTS TO BOTH HIS LEGS. PILOT RECEIVED MEDICAL ATTENTION AT ROCKFORD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.  ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^  NO PERSONS WERE INJURED ON THE GROUND.  HOWEVER, TWO ANTENNA TOWERS WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED, AS THEY COLLAPSED AFTER IMPACT OF GUY WIRE/S.  TWO BUILDINGS ALSO RECEIVED MINOR DAMAGE FROM THE FALLING TOWERS. MINOR DAMAGE TO CORN CROPS.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

- [NTSB CEN13LA425](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN13LA425), Jul 19, 2013: Air Tractor AT-400 (N155HF), Steward, IL, substantial damage. Probable cause: The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from the guy wires during an aerial application maneuver. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's failure to identify potential obstructions in the area…

## Other reports on N155HF (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 20021002031339A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20021002031339A), Oct 2, 2002: Airtrc AT400 (N155HF), Marmaduke, AR, Substantial damage. (-23) On October 2, 2002, at 1937Z, an air tractor AT-400, N155HF, while conducting aerial application of malathion on two cotton fields pulled up and over a…

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.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.