Skip to content

NYC68F0418

1968-04-02 · MECHANICSBURG, Pennsylvania, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N2415 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (AGUSTAWESTLAND PHILADELPHIA AW139, built 2024), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
GLASFLUGEL H-301 · N2415
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
C
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Takeoff — initial climb (C1)
Operator type
D
Airport
SKYPORT
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
320° / 9 kt

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
5,073
Age
52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EL RESULTED. NO AIRWORTHINESS CERTIFICATE ON ACFT.

Investigator remarks

PLT INSTALLED ELEVATOR PINS SO THAT ONLY UP TRAV

Cause factors

  • 75/A/CC A
    SYSTEMS ELEVATOR AND ELEVATOR TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/CB A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 68/A/D1 A
    PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (OWNER PERSONNEL) 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 0728. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0728.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Search this event elsewhere

External sources are reported, not agency: signal that something happened, not fact about what happened.