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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX70FUM08

1970-05-11 CALIPATRIA, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1021

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AERO COMMANDER 685

Year of manufacture

1972

Engine

CONT MOTOR GTSIO-520-C (340 hp)

Seats / Engines

9 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19721130

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00E9D

Registrant of record

N1021 INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1021 Smith DSA-1 Fatal

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

SMITH DSA-1 · N1021

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Airport

CALIPATRIA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Total time

159 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

5,800

Age

36

Investigator remarks

FLT PHASE UNKN.

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0743. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0743.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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