Skip to content

OAK76DVA71

1976-06-22 · REEDLEY, California, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
WACO AQC-6 · N16520
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
B2
Operator type
D
Airport
GREAT WESTERN
Kind of flying
DD

Weather at impact

Sky
UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED
Temp
90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000004479
Total time
2,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
1,419
Age
36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TER HIGH SPEED TAXI TEST.TIRE BLEW,LOST CTL.

Investigator remarks

ACFT WAS TO BE FERRIED FOR INTERIOR FINISHING AF

Cause factors

  • 70/C/CF C
    AIRFRAME WHEELS,TIRES,AXLES Cause
  • 88/C/95 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
  • 64/C/50 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED Cause
  • 80/K/BJ K
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES HIDDEN HAZARD Joint factor

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1339. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1339.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.