MIA84LA226 · Ayres THRUSH S2R-T15 THRUSH S2R
Ayres THRUSH S2R-T15 THRUSH S2R · Accident: in flight collision with object while maneuvering
From 4J5 to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- MIA84LA226
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Ayres THRUSH S2R-T15 THRUSH S2R
- Aircraft type
- Ayres THRUSH S2R-T15
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N40241
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From 4J5To not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 137: Agricultural
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Maneuvering · aerial application
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- In flight collision with object
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Pull-up, delayed
- Turbine assembly › Disabled
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
AT THE END OF SWATH RUN THE ACFT STRUCK A PIECE OF FARM EQUIPMENT DURING THE PULL-UP. AFTER THE COLLISION THE PLT NOTICED LIQUID TRAILING BEHIND THE ACFT AS HE RETURNED TO HIS DEPARTURE AIRPORT. UPON LDG WHEN THE LEFT WING SETTLEDCLOSE TO THE RWY, THE PLT REALIZED THAT THE LEFT MAIN GEAR HAD BEEN DAMAGED IN THE COLLISION. THE LANDING WAS ABORTED. AT ABOUT 75 FT AGL IN THE INITIAL CLIMB A TOTAL LOSS OF PWR WAS EXPERIENCED. THE PLT LANDED THE ACFT IN A CORN FIELD ANDTHE ACFT WAS DESTROYED BY POST CRASH FIRE. THERE WERE NO MECHANICAL MALFUNCTIONS PRIOR TO CONTACTING THE FARM EQUIPMENT.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA84LA226
- Event ID
- 20001214X40801
- Case number
- MIA84LA226
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 356136dccd1786ab53b7d8d4c984a34a4eeb0a8227c057561dd178d2028c7088; retrieved 2026-09-23T19:54:11.018Z.