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LAX75FUQ02

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

N41BC has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-14A, built 2019), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

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).

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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