LAX77FUM13
1977-01-23 · CALIPATRIA, California, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed
N28407 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (QUICKSILVER SPORT 2S), which was not involved in this event.
Aircraft involved
Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)
- Aircraft
- LUSCOMBE 8D · N28407
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Craft type
- Airplane
- Classification
- Accident
- Light condition
- Dawn
- Weather
- VMC
- Phase of flight
- D0
- Operator type
- D
- Airport
- CALIPATRIA
- Kind of flying
- B0
Weather at impact
- Sky
- CLEAR
- Wind
- 300° / 5 kt
- Temp
- 64° F
Aircraft history
- Serial number
- 000000001274
- Total time
- 2,540 hrs
Pilot
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Age
- 33
Investigator remarks
STEEP CLIMB AFTER TKOF.
Cause factors
- 64/A/16 A PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
- 64/A/23 A PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 0179.
Source file
NTSB_1977_3_0179.txt.
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