LAX88LA235 · Taylorcraft BC12-D
Taylorcraft BC12-D · Accident: loss of control on ground/water during landing
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
- LAX88LA235
- 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
Taylorcraft BC12-D Possible conflict
- Aircraft type
- Taylorcraft BC12
- 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
- N96384
- Operator
- Krattiger, Steven C. · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
- 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
- Landing · landing roll
- 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
- Loss of control on ground/water
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Compensation for wind conditions, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Directional control, not maintained
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT COMPLETED HIS PARTICIPATION IN THE 'BOMB DROP' PORTION OF AN AIR SHOW AND HE ATTEMPTED TO LAND ON RWY 22. THE PLT REPORTED THAT HIS TOUCHDOWN WAS NORMAL BUT HE LOST CONTROL OF HIS ACFT DURING THE LANDING ROLLOUT. THE WIND DIRECTION WAS VARIABLE & ITS SPEED WAS BETWEEN 5 & 10 KTS. THE PLT FAILED TO MAKE A GO-AROUND, & HE TRIED TO STOP HIS ACFT AS IT VEERED INTO A DIRT AREA LOCATED BETWEEN THE RWY & THE MAIN TAXIWAY. THE ACFT CAME TO REST UPON COLLIDING WITH A PARKED HELICOPTER. THE PLT HAD PURCHASED THE TAYLORCRAFT 4 MONTHS EARLIER.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX88LA235
- Event ID
- 20001213X26006
- Case number
- LAX88LA235
- 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 local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 08c53be4dbd7b842b3e38ff8c19c0889c995a219408f5928ddc7628b07cafb80; retrieved 2026-09-22T00:30:46.681Z.