- Date
- July 2, 1988, 16:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Antioch, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N607AALocolce/Blackwell Falcon XP
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880702025149A
- Case key
- 25762
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
While entering downwind for landing, the rudder did not respond. The airplane began to yaw to the left at a 30 degree banking spiral turn. The pilot deployed the emergency parachute and the airplane collided with the terrain. Inspection of the airplane revealed that the bolt used to attach the rudder to the wing was missing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N607AA
- Reported as
- Locolce/Blackwell Falcon XP
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 600153
- Airframe hours
- 344
- Engine
- Rotax 503DCF, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Schifini, Warren B.
- Registered owner
- Warren Bruce Shcifini
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Airport
- 012 · Antioch, runway 27, 2,500 × 25 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 44
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 2,331 total · 331 in this make and model · 1,942 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.