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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX75FUQ02

1974-07-14 TEHACHAPI, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N41BC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-14A

Year of manufacture

2019

Engine

LYCOMING YIO-390 SER (210 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20190712

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4D1E3

Registrant of record

COLCHIN DON J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N41BC Fokker DR-1 Serious

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

FOKKER DR-1 · N41BC

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

TEHACHAPI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

340° / 15 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

71-01BC

Total time

100 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

525

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ED TO HORIZ POS.

Investigator remarks

RUDDER POST FAILED ABOVE UPPER HINGE.RUDDER FOLD

Cause factors

70/A/D1 A
AIRFRAME RUDDER SURFACES,ATTACHMENTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/36 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/J2 A
PERSONNEL POOR/INADEQUATE DESIGN Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1871. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1871.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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