ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334244
| Date: | Wednesday 14 May 1958 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed R7V-1 Super Constellation |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 131652 |
| MSN: | 4153 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1954 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 11 km E of Taft, CA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Ontario International Airport, CA (ONT/KONT) |
| Mountain View-Moffett Field, CA (NUQ/KNUQ) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The aircraft executed five successive accelerated stalls and lost 3,000 feet of altitude. The forces and accompanying vibrations caused serious structure damage to skin, stringers, and bulkheads in the aft portions of the fuselage.
The aircraft then suffered a structural failure and crashed.
This accident caused by failure in the linkage of the elevator boost system which caused the elevator to travel to the full up position.
Sources:
CAB Accident Report L-049 N86511, 1 Sep. 1961
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