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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX66D0329

1966-03-27 RANCHO MIRAGE, California, United States None 2 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8424S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 182H

Year of manufacture

1965 · 1 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-470 SERIES (230 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650827

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB8A3C

Registrant of record

SKYLANE V LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

PIPER PA-28 · N6375W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

HAWTHORNE MUNI

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

250° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

672 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

19

Age

17

Cause factors

  • 64/A/22 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2599. Source file NTSB_1966_3_2599.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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