The National Transportation Safety Board did not travel to the scene of this accident.
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PEMBERTON, New Jersey - Authorities say a small plane made a "rough landing" in a field Wednesday afternoon in Burlington County.
Federal Aviation Administration / Flight Standards District Office; Teterboro, New Jersey
Jersey Devil Dusters LLC
Location: Pemberton Township, New Jersey
Accident Number: ERA22LA255
Date and Time: June 1, 2022, 21:15 UTC
Registration: N3658T
Aircraft: AIR TRACTOR INC AT-400A
Injuries: 1 None
Flight Conducted Under: Part 137: Agricultural
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Aircraft Make: AIR TRACTOR INC
Registration: N3658T
Model/Series: AT-400A
Aircraft Category: Airplane
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Operating Certificate(s) Held: Agricultural aircraft (137)
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Wreckage and Impact Information
Crew Injuries: 1 None
Aircraft Damage: Substantial
Passenger Injuries: N/A
Aircraft Fire: None
Ground Injuries: N/A
Aircraft Explosion: None
Total Injuries: 1 None
Latitude, Longitude: 39.944342,-74.629851 (est)
Landing gear damage on landing.
Date: 01-JUN-22
Time: 21:15:00Z
Regis#: N3658T
Aircraft Make: AIR TRACTOR
Aircraft Model: AT-400
Event Type: INCIDENT
Highest Injury: NONE
Aircraft Missing: No
Damage: UNKNOWN
Activity: AERIAL APPLICATION
Flight Phase: LANDING (LDG)
Operation: 137
City: PEMBERTON
State: NEW JERSEY
The apparent emergency landing happened just after 5:30 p.m. near Rake Pond Road in Pemberton Township, according to authorities.
No injuries were reported and its unknown how many people were aboard the aircraft.
This company has a proven track record of wrecking airplanes
ReplyDeleteI believe this same company crashed a plane at the same air field a couple years ago. Sounds like they need to get better pilots?
ReplyDeleteThey have a lot of pilots to support operation of four Weatherly 201's, two Weatherly 620's, a Pawnee, a Boeing Kaydet rigged for Ag, a Mielec M-18 and this Air tractor that are all currently registered to the business.
DeleteOperating 10 Ag aircraft, two years between crashes ≠ bad pilots.
The AT-300 series were built with radial power. This one obviously had a PT6 conversion to get it up to AT-400 and up turbine series. That's not a cheap conversion in any aircraft. But I guess it's cheaper buying an old piston hull and drop in a used PT-6 engine instead of procuring a brand new $1.2M AT-802 and hiring green pilots for less money.
ReplyDeleteFactory made AT-400's as turbines. Not conversions.
DeleteYou don’t get an 802 for 1.2 anymore
DeleteYou’re a 4 anyways
ReplyDeleteThere was reported to be 27 people on board
ReplyDeleteNumber 6 airplane accident in central new jersey this year 2022. 3 of the accidents were with CFI's and 2 CFI's died. Too many. Fuel expensive is cutting flight time, but not accidents. None were with no fuel, most were stalls..
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