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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX66D0090

1965-03-12 BRAWLEY, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3095B

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BALLOON WORKS FIREFLY 7-15

Year of manufacture

0000

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19951215

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A343CA

Registrant of record

LAKE AIR LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3095B Cessna 195B None

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 195B · N3095B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

OCONNELL BROS

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

135° / 10 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

3,500 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

11,117

Age

42

Cause factors

64/A/79 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/AQ J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND Joint cause

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 2718. Source file NTSB_1965_3_2718.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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