LAX90TL004 · North American F-86E
Dept of Usaf, HQ 313TH Ad Paf North American F-86E · Accident
From Kadena Air Base (RODN) to Kadena Air Base (RODN)
Narrative check · The NTSB narrative appears to contradict this record's aircraft involved. Values are shown as recorded, not corrected; compare with the narrative.
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX90TL004
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Government
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Unknown
North American F-86E Narrative disagrees
- Aircraft type
- North American F-86
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N93FS
- Operator
- Dept of Usaf, HQ 313TH Ad Paf
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Kadena Air Base (RODN)To Kadena Air Base (RODN)
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Public Aircraft
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Okinawa, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
ON JUNE 5, 1990, AT ABOUT 1300 LOCAL TIME, A CANADAIR F-86E (MK.6), N93FS, OWNED BY TRACTOR FLIGHT SYSTEM, INC OF SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA AND OPERATED BY THE U.S. AIR FORCE, WAS INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT AND WAS DESTROYED DURING A PUBLIC USE, INSTRUCTIONAL FLIGHT. ACCORDING TO PRELIMINARY INFORMATION, THE FLIGHT HAD ORIGINATED AT OKINAWA, AND AN IFR FLIGHT PLAN HAD BEEN FILED FOR THE FLIGHT. REPORTEDLY, THE PILOT WAS NOT INJURED.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX90TL004
- Event ID
- 20001212X23473
- Case number
- LAX90TL004
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the UTC date the NTSB stores; the local time zone is not recorded, so the local date may differ by a day.
- API snapshot SHA-256: fc198d50be79d99f22204c04e034f356f37f845e0140109527cb903bfe15cd64; retrieved 2026-09-18T21:22:57.054Z.