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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX70D0108

1969-08-28 CASA GRANDE, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9858V Cessna A188 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

CESSNA A188 · N9858V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DH

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000188-0108

Total time

663 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,330

Age

31

Investigator remarks

R AILERON CABLE FAILED. LANDED IN PLOWED FLD.

Cause factors

75/C/CA C
SYSTEMS AILERON AND AILERON TAB CONTROL SYSTEM Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor

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 2558. Source file NTSB_1969_3_2558.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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