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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN76FQA21

1975-10-11 LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N18084 Cessna 150L Serious

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

CESSNA 150L · N18084

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

LOS ALAMOS

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

160° / 14 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015078282

Total time

1,825 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,027

Age

42

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PTD GO ARND.HIT POLE & TREE.GUSTS 20K.DA 11000FT.

Investigator remarks

STUDENT BOUNCED,ACFT DRIFTED R.IP TOOK CTLS,ATTM

Cause factors

66/C/25 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
66/C/62 C
DUAL STUDENT Cause
64/C/30 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
82/L/W L
WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3734. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3734.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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