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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX67F0255

1967-01-20 HAWTHORNE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N78248

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

TEMCO GC-1B

Year of manufacture

1946 · 21 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C125 SERIES (125 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19591023

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA9AF9

Registrant of record

FERGUSON CRIS

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N78248 Globe GC-1B 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

GLOBE GC-1B · N78248

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

HAWTHRONE MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 9 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

710 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

104

Age

37

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 0218. Source file NTSB_1967_3_0218.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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