- Date
- July 17, 1989, 07:00 local (13:00 UTC)
- Place
- Haswell, CO
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N57622Piper PA-36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 18, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890717022589A
- Case key
- 17747
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Probable cause
Inadequate visual lookout by the pilot (failed to see & avoid) which resulted in his failure to maintain clearance from the obstruction. Contributing factors were: the unmarked guy wire & the pilot's lack of visual cues (visual perception).
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
As the pilot was making a swath run near a major power line, the acft's right wing hit a guy wire that was anchored about 95 ft to the side of the power line. The guy wire severed the right wing & the acft crashed. The plt rprtd that if the unmarked guy wire had been more visible, the acdnt would not have occurred.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N57622
- Reported as
- Piper PA-36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 36-7660020
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-720, 400 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Registered owner
- Barlow, Kirk A.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 1, 1989 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- 7V9 · Las Animas, CO
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
- 39
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 5,317 total · 2,578 in this make and model · 200 in the last 90 days · 75 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LHX, 12 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.