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OAK67A0028

1966-09-04 · LIVERMORE, California, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N1Y has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (EMBRAER SA EMB-550, built 2016), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BALLJACK 1 · N1Y
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
85° F

Aircraft history

Total time
105 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
650
Age
27

Investigator remarks

RIGHT WING SEPARATED IN-FLIGHT.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/09 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXCEEDED DESIGNED STRESS LIMITS OF AIRCRAFT Cause
  • 70/C/AD C
    AIRFRAME BRACING WIRES,STRUTS Cause
  • 88/C/94 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Cause
  • 88/L/49 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 2 0810. Source file NTSB_1966_2_0810.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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