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MIA78FLA50

1978-09-09 · DELAND, Florida, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N102BA has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (ICON AIRCRAFT INC A5, built 2018), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BIRDMAN TL1A · N102BA
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D7
Operator type
Personal/private
Airport
DELAND
Kind of flying
DC

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000BA-102
Total time
65 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
521
Age
26

Investigator remarks

EXPERIMENTAL ACFT.ENGINE-MCCULLOUGH 101MC.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/09 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXCEEDED DESIGNED STRESS LIMITS OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 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 4243. Source file NTSB_1978_3_4243.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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