NTSB CAROL · Event
Event ERA23LA381
Registry · N46Y
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
BOEING B75
Year of manufacture
1941 · 82 years old at event
Engine
LYCOMING R680-4P-B4 (225 hp)
Seats / Engines
2 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19610817
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A59968
Registrant of record
MARTY QUENTIN G
Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).
Aircraft involved
Probable cause & findings
The pilot’s failure to maintain control of the airplane while taking off in a crosswind.
Factual narrative
The pilot was attempting to take off in a right crosswind and had the right aileron fully deflected during the takeoff roll. As the tail-wheel equipped airplane became airborne, a wind gust pushed the airplane to the left side of the runway toward a tree line. The pilot attempted to turn the airplane back into the wind, but the lower left wing contacted a tree limb. The airplane descended into trees resulting in substantial damage to the rudder and both lower wings. The pilot reported there were no mechanical failures or malfunctions of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database Retrieved: 2026-02-12
NTSB Findings
Hierarchical cause / factor breakdown from the FAA bulk avdata database. Each finding tagged C (Cause) or F (Factor).
- — Personnel issues-Task performance-Use of equip/info-Aircraft control-Pilot
- — Environmental issues-Conditions/weather/phenomena-Wind-Crosswind-Response/compensation
Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file
NTSB_2023_ERA23LA381.txt.
Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb.
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- NASA NTRS 2019 · Abstract
Mode Transitions in Glass Cockpit Aircraft: Results of a Field Study
One consequence of increased levels of automation in complex control systems is the presence of modes. A mode is a particular configuration of a control system that defines how human command inputs ar…
- NASA NTRS 2019 · Other
Human-Centered Design of Human-Computer-Human Dialogs in Aerospace Systems
A series of ongoing research programs at Georgia Tech established a need for a simulation support tool for aircraft computer-based aids.
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