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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Air Tractor AT-502B · Victoria, TX · April 29, 2016

Date
April 29, 2016 · 09:00 local
Place
Victoria, TX
Airport
Victoria
Phase of flight
Takeoff: Departure Roll
Operating rules
Agricultural (Part 137)
Operator
JWEG
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N702LA
Reported as
Air Tractor AT-502B
Reported engine
Pratt & Whitney PT6A series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Commercial pilot, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
17,427 total3,400 in this make and model160 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.

The pilot lost control during takeoff and departed the runway striking a dirt berm

As the FAA filed it

THE PILOT LOST CONTROL DURING TAKEOFF AND DEPARTED THE RUNWAY STRIKING A DIRT BERM