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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX67D0428

1967-05-06 ADELANTO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N10387

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHWEIZER SGS 1-26

Year of manufacture

1961 · 6 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19610605

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A01369

Registrant of record

LEARY JAMES

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N10387 SCHWEITZER SGS126 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

SCHWEITZER SGS126 · N10387

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

EL MIRAGE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

190

Age

52

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DESERT ROAD. WING HIT BRUSH. GOOD FIELD IN RANGE.

Investigator remarks

ACFT CAUGHT IN DOWNDRAFT. PLT ATTEMPTED LNDG ON

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
82/L/M L
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS

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 1436. Source file NTSB_1967_3_1436.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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