- Date
- August 8, 1982, 08:37 local (13:37 UTC)
- Place
- Cheneyville, LA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N8807ZEagle DW-1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 8, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820808035149A
- Case key
- 70212
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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
The acft was on the approach to spray a cottonfield when a collision with an unseen power line occurred. The collision forced the acft down and the pilot made a hard landing which damaged the landing gear and the right wing. The visibilitywas about 5 miles in haze.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8807Z
- Reported as
- Eagle DW-1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- DW1-0049-81
- Airframe hours
- 55
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540M-185D, 185 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Farmers Dusting Company
- Registered owner
- Eagle Aircraft Leasing Company
- Departed
- Cheneyville, LA
- Destination
- Cheneyville, LA
- Airport
- runway 18, 2,500 × 75 ft
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
- 33
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 4,580 total · 150 in this make and model · 4,400 as pilot in command · 152 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N8807Z · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.