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OAK76AP061

1976-07-06 · VACAVILLE, California, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N2488P has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (PIPER PA-28-181, built 1999), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
PETERSON J-4 · N2488P
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
C
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EB
Operator type
Part 91 (general aviation)
Airport
GLIDERPORT
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Wind
230° / 10 kt
Temp
90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000000004
Total time
2 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
49
Age
37

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/31 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/22 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH Joint cause

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2194. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2194.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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