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LAX66F0263

1966-03-14 · HEBER, California, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BOEING B75-N1 · N68730
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — descent (EF)
Operator type
Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)
Airport
GRAHAM
Kind of flying
CB

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
270° / 7 kt
Temp
66° F

Aircraft history

Total time
5,587 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
10,767
Age
39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

INDER

Investigator remarks

TAIL WHEEL SHOCK STRUT PISTON SEPARATED FROM CYL

Cause factors

  • 70/C/CD C
    AIRFRAME TAILWHEEL ASSEMBLIES Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0713. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0713.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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