ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 147492
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| Date: | 07-AUG-2012 |
| Time: | 12:20 |
| Type: |  Ayres S-2R Thrush |
| Owner/operator: | Bluestem Aerial Sprayers Llc |
| Registration: | N5596X |
| MSN: | 5095R |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Sandbar 5 miles NE Ponca City, OK -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Newkirk, OK |
| Newkirk, OK (OK48) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
During an aerial application flight over a river, the pilot was spreading seed when the airplane struck and severed all four wires of an electrical transmission power line. During the forced landing, the airplane impacted tall vegetation. The fuselage, empennage, and both wings were substantially damaged. According to the pilot and photographs of the area, neither the transmission wires nor the poles were visible above the tree line adjacent to the river banks. The pilot stated that he had been warned about the transmission lines that extended over the river and should have located them before the application portion of the flight began.
Probable Cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from power lines.
Sources:
NTSB
FAA register: http://www.poncacitynews.com/local/Plane-Crash-Kay-County
http://www.newson6.com/story/19218782/state-owned-plane-lands-in-kay-county-river
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20120807_11_0_PONCAC851202]
https://www.faa.gov/data_research/accident_incident/preliminary_data/events01/media/02_5596X.txt
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=5596X
Accident investigation:
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Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 18 May 2006 | N5596X | Croom Aviation | 0 | Perry, Florida | |
sub |
| Fuel exhaustion. | ||||||
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 07-Aug-2012 17:36 | Geno | Added |
| 08-Aug-2012 08:58 | gerard57 | Updated [Damage] |
| 08-Aug-2012 09:58 | Geno | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:28 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 28-Nov-2017 13:15 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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