Incident Overview
Date: Tuesday 14 July 1953
Aircraft Type: Ford 4-AT-E Tri-Motor
Owner/operator: Johnson Flying Service
Registration Number: N8400
Location: 1 km E of Basin, MT –
ÿ United States of America
Phase of Flight: Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Component Affected: Tail of the Tri-Motor aircraft.Tail of the Tri-Motor aircraft.
Category: Accident
A Tri-Motor aircraft struck a cable during spraying spruce bugworms, resulting in a forced landing and tail detachment.A Tri-Motor aircraft struck a cable during spraying spruce bugworms, resulting in a forced landing and tail detachment.
Description
While spraying spruce bugworms the Tri-Motor struck a cable, part of which was caught round the tail and snagged a pylon during the forced landing, tearing the tail from the aircraft which crashed nose down.
Primary Cause
Cable entanglement and subsequent impact with a pylon.Cable entanglement and subsequent impact with a pylon.Share on:
