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| Date: | Friday 31 July 1998 |
| Time: | 14:30 LT |
| Type: |  Air Tractor AT-301 |
| Owner/operator: | Robertson Crop Dusting Service |
| Registration: | N3659T |
| MSN: | 301-0329 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 6417 hours |
| Engine model: | P&W R-1340AN1 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Mentha, MI -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | (KRLA) |
| (KRLA) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot of an aerial applicator airplane landed his airplane on a road that had an uneven surface and was covered with lose gravel. The road had mature corn growing along its edges. The pilot said his left wing tip struck the corn as the airplane touched down. Furrows in the gravel showed the airplane had turned about 45-degrees to the left shortly after touch down. The furrows continued into and through a ditch and into the corn where the airplane came to a stop.
Probable Cause: the pilot's improper inflight decision to land the airplane on the gravel covered road with an uneven surface that had corn growing next to its edge. A factor in this accident was the pilot selecting an unsuitable landing area.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB CHI98LA290
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 20 June 2003 | N3659T | Robertson Crop Dusting Service Inc. | 0 | Covert, Michigan | |
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| Fuel exhaustion | ||||||
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 10-Mar-2024 17:57 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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