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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX68F0298

1968-02-05 HAWTHORNE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N76584

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PZL-MIELEC SB-LIM2 (MIG 15 UTI)

Year of manufacture

1954 · 14 years old at event

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20001120

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA57A8

Registrant of record

TRAINING SERVICES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 140 · N76584

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

HAWTHORNE

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

160° / 3 kt

Aircraft history

Total time

5,169 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

14

Age

42

Investigator remarks

ACFT PORPOISED. SECOND SOLO FLT.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/62 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING Cause
  • 88/L/22 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH
  • 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 0211. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0211.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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