Airplane... Began To Descend In A Steep Attitude Before Striking Mature Corn And Impacting The Ground In A Nose Down, Wings Level Attitude
On July 13, 2024, at 1527 central daylight time, an Air Tractor AT-802A, N2003Y, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Cuba, Kentucky. The airline transport pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 137 agricultural flight. Prior to the accident flight, the airplane was loaded with 190 gallons of agriculture chemicals and fueled at the owner’s operating base in Murray, Kentucky, about 25 miles east of the accident site. Preliminary aerial application data was obtained from the company’s cloudbased servi