LAX87FA040 · Boeing A75N1
Boeing A75N1 and Globe GC-1A · Accident: midair collision on approach
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX87FA040
- 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
Aircraft 1 · Boeing A75N1
- Aircraft type
- Boeing A75
- 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
- N621SR
- Operator
- Hartley I. Folstad · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Chino Airport (CNO), Chino, CATo L66
- 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
- Approach · VFR pattern final
- 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
- Midair collision
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Aircraft 2 · Globe GC-1A
- 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
- N80579
- Operator
- Maya, Arye · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Hemet Ryan Airport (HMT), Hemet, CATo L66 · Corona, 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
- Approach · VFR pattern final
- 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
- Midair collision
- 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 › Planned approach, improper
- Pilot in command › Procedures/directives, not followed
- Pilot in command › VFR procedures, improper
- Pilot in command › Visual lookout, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Visual separation, not identified
- Pilot of other aircraft › Planned approach, improper
- Pilot of other aircraft › Visual lookout, not maintained
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Corona, CA, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT OF N621SR SAID THAT AS HE ENTERED THE PATTERN DOWNWIND HE SAW ONLY ONE LOW WING ACFT WHICH WAS JUST TURNING FINAL FOR RWY 25. ON SHORT FINAL THE PLT SAID HE NOTICED THE WING AND COCKPIT OF THE OTHER ACFT IN HIS LEFT SIDE PERIPHIAL VISION ONE SECOND PRIOR TO THE COLLISION. THE PLT OF N80579 SAID THAT HE ENTERED THE PATTERN BEHIND A PA28 ACFT, AND, AS HE TURNED FINAL, HE NOTICED THAT THE SPEED DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIS ACFT AND THE PA28 WAS ERRODING THE SPACING TO THE POINT THAT HE ELECTED TO DO A 360 DEGREE TURN ON FINAL TO ALLOW THE PA28 TIME TO LAND. ON SHORT FINAL THE PLT FELT A VIOLENT JERK AND THEN SAW THE BOEING PROP CHEWING INTO HIS RIGHT WING. THE PLT OF N621SR SAID HE WAS MONITORING THE UNICOM, BUT DID NOT MAKE ANY POSITION REPORTS. THE PLT OF N80579 SAID HE MADE '5 OR 6' POSITION REPORTS, INCLUDING ONE DURING THE 360 TURN, BUT HEARD NONE FROM THE BOEING.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX87FA040
- Event ID
- 20001213X35183
- Case number
- LAX87FA040
- 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: e70ae126ef1b99326e12021337a357125e37ac081ff4c07a34af5ec1f96d451b; retrieved 2026-09-21T16:49:14.137Z.