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LAX69A0048

1969-01-31 · SAN SIMON, Arizona, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
GLOBE SWIFT GC-1B · N4198
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
DC
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Temp
60° F

Aircraft history

Total time
880 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
205
Age
35

Investigator remarks

ELEVATION 6500 FT,TEMP APRXLY 60 DEG.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/20 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FLEW INTO BLIND CANYON Joint cause
  • 82/J/W J
    WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0817. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0817.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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