ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 291971
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| Date: | Monday 31 July 2006 |
| Time: | 12:45 LT |
| Type: |  Air Tractor AT-400 |
| Owner/operator: | Dlux Spray Service |
| Registration: | N23720 |
| MSN: | 400-0422 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney PT6A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Springfield, Minnesota -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Canby, MN (27D) |
| Springfield, MN (KPVT) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The airplane ground looped following a failure of one of the tail wheel bolts. The pilot reported that he was landing at a private grass airstrip when the accident occurred. He reported that upon landing the tail wheel broke and the airplane ground looped. Inspection of the airplane revealed that it traveled into a bean field during the ground loop and that the bottom bolt on the tail wheel assembly fractured which resulted in a loss of directional control.
Probable Cause: The pilot's inability to maintain directional control of the airplane as a result of the partial failure of the tail wheel assembly. A factor associated with the accident was the crop that the airplane contacted.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB CHI06CA221
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 23 August 2011 | N23720 | D-Lux Spray Service, LLC | 0 | Three miles south of Monango, ND | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 08-Oct-2022 07:23 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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