Skip to content

FTW68A0026

1967-09-03 · NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N5006K has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (AIR TRACTOR INC AT-402B, built 1997), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
LOCKHEED 188A · N5006K
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
C0
Airport
MOISANT FIELD

Weather at impact

Sky
OVERCAST

Aircraft history

Total time
20,118 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
11,588
Age
39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CREASE RPM POSITION.

Investigator remarks

NUMBER 4 ROTARY ACTUATOR FAILED WHILE IN FULL IN

Cause factors

  • 74/C/FC C
    POWERPLANT ELECTRIC PITCH CONTROL MECHANISM Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
  • 64/B/79 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL
  • 88/K/07 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES Joint factor

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 1 0065. Source file NTSB_1967_1_0065.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Search this event elsewhere

External sources are reported, not agency: signal that something happened, not fact about what happened.