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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX70FUG30

1970-05-03 RUBIDOUX, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5108V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MORRISEY 2150

Year of manufacture

1959 · 11 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19590520

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A664F3

Registrant of record

DAVIS JOHN K

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5108V Morrisey 2150 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

MORRISEY 2150 · N5108V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

FLABOB

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 2 kt

Temp

88° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000FP8

Total time

730 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,602

Age

51

Investigator remarks

STRUCK UNMARKED WIRES ON LONG LOW APCH.

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
64/B/15 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS
88/L/22 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 1915. Source file NTSB_1970_3_1915.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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