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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX69A0063

1969-05-09 PEORIA, Arizona, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5141V Morrisey 2150A 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

MORRISEY 2150A · N5141V

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

TURF

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

135° / 5 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000005P37

Total time

1,938 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

687

Age

49

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 3170. Source file NTSB_1969_3_3170.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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