Event LAX69D0260

1968-11-30 ADELANTO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N37495 Schweizer TG-3A 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

SCHWEIZER TG-3A · N37495

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

2,438 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

87

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

EQUIP-TOW HOOK RELEASED,CAUSE UNDETERMINED.

Cause factors

76/C/CE C
INSTRUMENTS/EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES GLIDER LAUNCH/TOW EQUIPMENT Cause
84/C/J C
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE 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 4891. Source file NTSB_1968_3_4891.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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