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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX67D0221

1966-12-07 MOJAVE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA 172 · N8848U

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

D

Airport

MOJAVE

Kind of flying

CG

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 40 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Total time

982 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

12,000

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PLT TRIED TO TAXI CROSSWIND.

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING TO 40 KNOTS BLEW AIRCRAFT OVER WHEN

Cause factors

  • 82/A/H A
    WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/38 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND TAXIED/PARKED WITHOUT PROPER ASSISTANCE 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 4106. Source file NTSB_1966_3_4106.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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