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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX67D0203

1966-11-16 MARICOPA, Arizona, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6507W Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N6507W

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Business

Airport

MARICOPA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Total time

765 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,500

Age

36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ATTEMPTING NIGHT LANDING ON UNLIGHTED AIRPORT.

Investigator remarks

MISJUDGED POSITION RELATIVE TO KNOWN WIRES WHILE

Cause factors

64/A/46 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
64/C/33 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT 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 3566. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3566.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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