Event LAX69D0292

1968-10-28 CASA GRANDE, Arizona, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N90369 Globe GC-1B Serious

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

GLOBE GC-1B · N90369

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

CASA GRANDE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

1,264 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,004

Age

48

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/K B
TERRAIN SANDY

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 4885. Source file NTSB_1968_3_4885.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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