AT-802U wrecked

[Chris Kennedy]

There was some discussion of the Air Tractor prototype attack aircraft earlier on the forum. Turns out they wrecked it back in October.

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/12/15/350981/picture-air-tractor-prangs-precision-strike-demonstrator.html

[Joe Copalman]

Wow!  Kaspar caught it two days before this at Casa Grande!

http://azaerophoto.com/forum/index.php?topic=137.msg12838#msg12838

[Chris Kennedy]

Wow!  Kaspar caught it two days before this at Casa Grande!

http://azaerophoto.com/forum/index.php?topic=137.msg12838#msg12838

Very good timing, Kaspar.

The tailwheel hit a berm at the end of the strip. The pilot obviously landed too short. The quoted NTSB recommendation is pretty funny. "The aircraft should have landed further down the strip." I don't think anybody would argue with that.

This happened at an Army Reserve base in California. It can't have helped their campaign to sell it to the military much.

[Jay Beckman]

NTSB = Masters of Understatement