Air Tractor 301 N7305E

Summary

On 3 July 2007 at about 01:30 local time, a Air Tractor 301 registered N7305E, operated by Murphree Flying Service Inc., was involved in an accident near Lueders, Texas, United States. One person was on board and one was seriously injured. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

3 July 2007 at 01:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Lueders, Texas, United States

Nearest airport

None

Coordinates

32.8369, -99.5936

Aircraft

Air Tractor 301

Registration

N7305E

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Murphree Flying Service Inc.

Operating rule

Part 137: Agricultural

Purpose of flight

Aerial Application

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Rotan/Roby → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

DFW07LA148

1 person was seriously injured.

The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed which resulted in an inadvertent stall and subsequent impact with terrain.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The 917-hour commercial pilot, with 98-hours in make/model, was performing the turn to reverse direction during an agricultural spraying flight when the tail-wheel equipped airplane stalled and impacted the ground in a nose-low attitude. When asked in the NTSB 6120.1 accident form "How could this accident have been prevented?" the pilot responded, "Do not stall heavy aircraft near the ground." The pilot further reported that there was no mechanical malfunction or failure of the airplane.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.