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LAX82FVD03

1981-10-31 · TRACY, California, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
STITS SA3A · N7758C
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D7
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
270° / 10 kt
Temp
67° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
00000000P555
Total time
632 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
1,094
Age
36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

N ROLLING MNVR.

Investigator remarks

LEFT WING SEPD OUTBOARD OF STRUT AFT ACFT OBSD I

Cause factors

  • 64/A/09 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXCEEDED DESIGNED STRESS LIMITS OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 70/J/AA J
    AIRFRAME SPARS Joint cause
  • 88/J/94 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint cause
  • 88/J/49 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT Joint cause

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3155. Source file NTSB_1981_3_3155.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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