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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX68A0078

1968-02-25 ADELANTO, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N75099

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHWEIZER AIRCRAFT CORP G-164B

Year of manufacture

1992

TCDS

1A16 · ALLIED AG CAT PRODUCTIONS

Engine

P&W R1340 SERIES (600 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19921125

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA1DBE

Registrant of record

VINCENT FLYING SERVICE INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N75099 Schweizer TG-3A Fatal

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

SCHWEIZER TG-3A · N75099

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Airport

EL MIRAGE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Total time

819 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

119

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E.

Investigator remarks

RT WING SEPARATED DURING RECOVERY FROM STEEP DIV

Cause factors

70/C/AY C
AIRFRAME OTHER Cause
64/C/09 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXCEEDED DESIGNED STRESS LIMITS OF AIRCRAFT Cause
88/C/94 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Cause
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT

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 0722. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0722.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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