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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX69F0099

1968-06-11 MOJAVE, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N28561

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-236

Year of manufacture

1979

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19790409

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2E3D2

Registrant of record

CARTER BOYS AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

LUSCOMBE 8A · N28561

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,000

Age

37

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TTEMPTED FLT OVER RISING TERRAIN IN CANYON.

Investigator remarks

DENSITY ALT APPROX 5700 FT.HEAVILY LOADED ACFT.A

Cause factors

  • 65/A/16 A
    COPILOT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 65/A/29 A
    COPILOT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/30 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/W J
    WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE Joint cause
  • 82/J/M J
    WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS Joint 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 2895. Source file NTSB_1968_3_2895.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.