- Date
- June 22, 1987, 07:30 local (12:30 UTC)
- Place
- Plover, WI
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N57791Piper PA-36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 7, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870622021749A
- Case key
- 13578
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
After spraying most of a bean crop, the plt was making clean-up swaths over an area at the north side of the field. This area had bldgs to the west & trees to the east. To avoid flying toward the bldgs, the plt elected to make the passes to the east (toward the sun). As he was pulling up from the 3rd clean-up swath, the acft rose above the shorter trees; however, the plt did not see a taller tree due to sunglare & chemical spray on his windshield. The left wing struck the tall tree, then the acft yawed to the left, crashed & was extensively dmgd.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N57791
- Reported as
- Piper PA-36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 36-7660105
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-720, 400 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Registered owner
- Jeffrey R. Reabe
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 4, 1987 · 90 hours before
- Departed
- 8W13 · Plover, WI
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 31
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 4,451 total · 828 in this make and model · 4,280 as pilot in command · 103 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AUW, 27 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.