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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX69F0259

1969-01-28 NEWPORT BEACH, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N357CE

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MEYERS INDUSTRIES INC 200B

Year of manufacture

1962 · 7 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19810619

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3FF05

Registrant of record

WINDH STEVEN R

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

MEYERS 200 · N357CE

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

DB

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

1,582 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

9,000

Age

53

Investigator remarks

INTENTIONAL GR UP LANDING.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 88/C/87 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS WATER IN FUEL 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 0754. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0754.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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