- Date
- August 6, 1989, 10:15 local (16:15 UTC)
- Place
- Moscow, AR
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N4943XRockwell S-2R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 18, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890806027379A
- Case key
- 34662
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Probable cause
Inadequate visual lookout by the pilot. The guy wire was a contributing factor.
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 plt stated that as he was making passes for aerial application, the acft hit an unobserved guy wire which extended from a power line pole. The acft then spun around & crashed in a soybean field. After the plt crawled from the acft, it burned & was destroyed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4943X
- Reported as
- Rockwell S-2R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 5004R
- Airframe hours
- 2,663
- Engine
- P&W R-1340-AN1, 600 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Dirty Bird Inc., doing business as Dirty Bird Inc.
- Registered owner
- Dirty Bird Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 25, 1989 · 318 hours before
- Airport
- NONE
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
- 59
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 32,810 total · 10,000 in this make and model · 32,674 as pilot in command · 275 in the last 90 days · 92 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PBF, 10 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.
Other investigations on N4943X · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.