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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX70D0159

1969-08-29 GILA BEND, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6823S AERO COMDR 680 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

AERO COMDR 680 · N6823S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Business

Airport

GILA BEND

Kind of flying

DF

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

105° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000329-23

Total time

4,300 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,340

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HALFWAY DOWN RWY.

Investigator remarks

POSITIONING PERS AND EQUIP FOR AIR RACE. LANDED

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
82/L/U L
WEATHER HIGH TEMPERATURE

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 3808. Source file NTSB_1969_3_3808.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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