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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX68D0116

1967-09-03 BLYTHE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8921R

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CHAMPION 7GCA

Year of manufacture

1960 · 7 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19600331

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC4F4D

Registrant of record

SALE REPORTED

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8921R Champion 7GCA 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

CHAMPION 7GCA · N8921R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,144 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

726

Age

59

Investigator remarks

PLT WAS INSPECTING STORM DAMAGE.LANDED SAFELY.

Cause factors

64/A/15 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/I J
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint 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 3275. Source file NTSB_1967_3_3275.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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