| Date: | Tuesday 12 November 1968 |
| Time: | 17:28 |
| Type: |  Convair CV-580 |
| Owner/operator: | Tex Johnson Inc |
| Registration: | N73135 |
| MSN: | 85 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1953 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, CA (SBA) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | |
| Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, CA (SBA/KSBA) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Belly landed during a training flight. The landing gear warning horn did not sound.
PROBABLE CAUSES:
dual student - failed to extend landing gear
pilot in command - inadequate supervision of flight
FACTORS:
miscellaneous acts, conditions - checklist-failed to use
airframe - landing gear: landing gear warning and indicating components
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
World Directory of Airliner Crashes
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