LAX83FVG15 · Great Lakes 2T-1A-Z
Great Lakes 2T-1A-Z · Accident: loss of control in flight while maneuvering
From 005 · Davis, CA to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX83FVG15
- 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
- 2 · 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
Great Lakes 2T-1A-Z
- Aircraft type
- Great Lakes 2
- 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
- N5761N
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From 005 · Davis, CATo 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
- Maneuvering
- 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 in flight
- 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 › Aerobatics, performed
- Pilot in command › Clearance, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Proper altitude, not maintained
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE ACFT COLLIDED WITH THE GROUND WHILE PERFORMING AEROBATIC MANEUVERS. THE PLT HAD SCHEDULED A NUMBER OF AEROBATIC FLTSFOR VARIOUS PEOPLE. DURING THE LAST FLT OF THE DAY THE AIRCRAFT CRASHED IN A ALT OPEN, PLOWED FIELD. WEATHER WAS NOT A FACTOR. THE AIRCRAFT IMPACTED THE GROUND IN A 30 DEGREE NOSE DOWN ATTITUDE AND TRAVELED FORWARD 35 FT AFTER IMPACT. THE EMPENNAGE WAS NOT DAMAGED. THE WINGS WERE DESTROYED BUT REMAINED ATTACHED TO THE FUSELAGE. THE ACFT REMAINED UPRIGHTTHE ENGINE REMAINED ATTACHED BUT THE ENGINE MOUNT WAS COLLAPSED. THE FLOOR AND THE LANDING GEAR WERE COLLAPSED. THE INTEGRITY OF THE FLT CONTROL SYSTEM WAS ESTABLISHED. THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF AN IN-FLT FAILURE OF THE STRUCTURE OR POWERPLANT. THE OCCUPANTS HAD WORN THEIR SEAT BELTS AND SHOULDER HARNESS WHICH WERE INTACT. BOTH OCCUPANTS RECEIVED FATAL TRAUMATIC INJURIES. THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF PRE-IMPACT FACTORS WHICH MIGHT HAVE DETRACTED FROM THE PLTS ABILITY TO OPERATE THE ACFT. THE TOXICOLOGICAL REPORTS FOR BOTH OCCUPANTS WERE NEGATIVE FOR DRUGS AND ALCOHOL.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX83FVG15
- Event ID
- 20001214X43794
- Case number
- LAX83FVG15
- 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: c575acf52534b295a5793320f9253cc713ad794d757713b5a50c0a85d836b565; retrieved 2026-09-21T06:25:57.694Z.