# Rudder/tab attach fitting

- Type: NTSB finding subsection
- Path: [Aircraft](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01) › [Aircraft structures](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/0103) › [Empennage structure](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/010355) › Rudder/tab attach fitting
- NTSB code: 01035554
- Cases: 2
- In the probable cause: 2
- Fatal cases: 0
- All cases: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01035554/cases.md
- Cases with it in the probable cause: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01035554/cases.md?cause=1
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/01035554

## Cases per year (in the probable cause / all)

- 2008: 1 / 1
- 2010: 1 / 1

## Defining events in these cases

- [Flight control sys malf/fail](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/333): 1 cases
- [Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240): 1 cases

## Aircraft models (registry)

- [Eclipse EA500](https://openairdocs.org/model/eclipse-ea500): 1 cases
- [Belcher William B II FIRESTAR](https://openairdocs.org/model/belcher-william-b-ii-firestar): 1 cases

## Other findings in the same cases

- [Aircraft control](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063040) (Personnel issues): 1 cases
- [Incorrect action performance](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02041015) (Personnel issues): 1 cases

## Newest cases

- [NTSB ERA10LA166](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA10LA166), Mar 6, 2010: Belcher William B II Firestar (N43341), Wetumpka, AL, substantial damage. Probable cause: The student pilot’s in-flight loss of control as a result of previous damage to the airplane from an undetermined event.
- [NTSB CHI08IA109](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CHI08IA109), Apr 17, 2008: Eclipse EA500 (N539RM), Pontiac, MI, incident, no damage. Probable cause: The inadvertent stalling of the rudder trim actuator motor during flight due to the pilot's unintentional exceedence of the motor's design limit for stalling while accelerating after completing a…

NTSB has coded findings and defining events since 2008; earlier cases used its older occurrence and cause codes and aren't counted.

Findings: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings.md. Defining events: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events.md. Phases of flight: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases.md. Every investigation, filtered by finding, event, phase, state, year or model: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb.md (for example ?state=MI&fatal=1).

NTSB's definitions: Accident and incident, 49 CFR 830.2 (https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-VIII/part-830/subpart-A/section-830.2), CICTT occurrence categories (PDF) (https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Documents/datafiles/OccurrenceCategoryDefinitions.pdf), CICTT phases of flight (PDF) (https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/data/Documents/datafiles/PhaseofFlightDefinitions.pdf), and NTSB coding manual, before 2008 (PDF) (https://www.ntsb.gov/GILS/Documents/codman.pdf). NTSB publishes no definitions for its findings, only their names.

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