Event LAX68F0326

1968-03-01 HAWTHORNE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7398P Piper PA-24 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

PIPER PA-24 · N7398P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

HAWTHORNE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

720 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

153

Age

44

Cause factors

64/A/39 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0460. Source file NTSB_1968_3_0460.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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