LAX90LA286 · Globe GC-1B
Globe GC-1B · Accident: in flight encounter with weather during initial climb
From an unrecorded airport to 2Q3 · Woodland, CA
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX90LA286
- 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
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Globe GC-1B
- Aircraft type
- Globe GC-1
- 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
- N3314K
- Operator
- R.M. Lundsford, S.R.
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo 2Q3 · Woodland, CA
- 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
- Part 91: General Aviation
- 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
- Initial climb
- First occurrenceThe 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
- In flight encounter with weather
- 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
- Pilot in command › Altitude, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Clearance, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Planning/decision, poor
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT STATED HE MADE A NORMAL TAKEOFF AND WAS IN THE INITIAL CLIMB, WHEN HE MADE A HEADING CHANGE TOWARDS A LOW AREA IN THE HILLS. AT THAT TIME THE AIRCRAFT ROLLED TO THE LEFT INVERTED. WHILE ATTEMPTING TO RECOVER FROM THE UNUSUAL ATTITUDE HE STRUCK THE HILLSIDE. THE OWNER REFUSED ACCESS TO THE AIRCRAFT FOR EXAMINATION AFTER ILLEGALLY REMOVING IT. THE WINDS WERE REPORTED TO BE 230 DEGREES AT 18 KNOTS WITH PEAK GUSTS TO 23 KNOTS. A RESIDENT FLIGHT EXAMINER STATED THE WINDS WERE VERY 'CHOPPY'.
Probable cause
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE ALTITUDE RESULTING IN AN INFLIGHT ENCOUNTER WITH AN UNFAVORABLE WIND AT A LOW ALTITUDE IN A HILLY TERRAIN.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX90LA286
- Event ID
- 20001212X24051
- Case number
- LAX90LA286
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1990-08-13.
- API snapshot SHA-256: dcaf1f0a309a306dbd9b8de5cc175e414c4e75a6e5e6cbe754ad898217bccbff; retrieved 2026-09-23T05:25:46.994Z.