- Date
- May 12, 1983, 14:42 local (19:42 UTC)
- Place
- Arkansas City, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N36962Cessna 441
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 33369
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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
The pilot experienced elevator control problems and made an emergency landing on an abandoned airstrip. The elevator trim cable had come off of the electric trim servo drum and was tangled in the auto pilot. An unrelated fire destroyed the aircraft. Post fire tests suggest that the cable drum had been subject to tampering.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N36962
- Reported as
- Cessna 441
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 33
- Airframe hours
- 1,135
- Engine
- Garrett TPE3318401S, 636 lbs thrust, turbo prop
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 91 subpart F
- Registered owner
- Modern Supply Company
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 19, 1983 · 11 hours before
- Departed
- PNC · Ponca City, OK
- Destination
- ICT · Wichita, KS
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 42
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,450 total · 1,105 in this make and model · 4,450 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 18 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg