- Date
- August 14, 1966
- Place
- Sussex, NJ · SUSSEX, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N370YWhitman T-WIND
- Status
- Completed · report October 3, 1966
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 122177
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2136 66/8/14 SUSSEX NJ WHITMAN T-WIND CR- 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, AGE 25, 958 TIME - 1500 N370Y PX- 0 0 0 EXPERIMENTATION TOTAL HOURS, 270 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - SUSSEX TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION HARD LANDING LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN GEAR COLLAPSED LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) SYSTEMS - FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS: ELEVATOR AND ELEVATOR TAB CONTROL SYSTEM PERSONNEL - MAINTENANCE,SERVICING,INSPECTION: IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (OWNER PERSONNEL) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - MATERIAL FAILURE FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - OVERLOAD FAILURE REMARKS- WELD JOINING CONTROL STICK TO ELEVATOR TORQUE TUBE FAILED AT LEVEL OFF.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N370Y
- Reported as
- Whitman T-WIND
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Sussex
N370YRegistration cancelled Mar 6, 2021 · Stanton WITTMAN TAILWIND W-8Airframe modelStanton WITTMAN TAILWIND W-8Engine modelContinental C85 series
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.