LAX68A0095
1968-04-27 · S.LUIS OBISPO, California, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed
N13066 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (DJI AGRAS T50), which was not involved in this event.
Aircraft involved
Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)
- Aircraft
- WACO UIC · N13066
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Craft type
- Airplane
- Classification
- Accident
- Light condition
- Dawn
- Weather
- VMC
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff — initial climb (C1)
- Operator type
- D
- Airport
- CAL.POLY STRIP
- Kind of flying
- B0
Weather at impact
- Sky
- CLEAR
- Wind
- 315° / 5 kt
- Temp
- 71° F
Aircraft history
- Total time
- 3,163 hrs
Pilot
- Certificate
- Commercial — instrument
- Total hours
- 287
- Age
- 39
Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)
AND GO LNDG.
Investigator remarks
ACFT ENTERED ABNORMALLY STEEP CLIMB AFTER TOUCH
Cause factors
- 64/A/16 A PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).
Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket
3 0750.
Source file
NTSB_1968_3_0750.txt.
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