Rutan Vari VIGGEN N88RC

24 April 1979 · New Smyrna, Florida, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 24 April 1979 at about 11:00 local time, a Rutan Vari VIGGEN registered N88RC was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near New Smyrna, Florida, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 24 April 1979 at 11:00
Classification: Accident
Location: New Smyrna, Florida, United States
Nearest airport: New Smyrna Beach
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Rutan Vari VIGGEN
Registration: N88RC
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-1678

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	0	0	0	1

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

ALUMINUM RIVETS IN TURNBUCKLES FAILED.BOUGHT FM SURPLUS STORE.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 3-1678, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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