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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX71DUG48

1971-02-15 DAGGETT, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N79012

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172K

Year of manufacture

1968 · 3 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19690320

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AABA9B

Registrant of record

BREWER JEREMIAH L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N79012 Cessna 172K 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 172K · N79012

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

BARSTOW-DAGGETT

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Wind

250° / 28 kt

Temp

74° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000001725780

Total time

800 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

331

Age

29

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTING 36K

Cause factors

64/A/33 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/A/H A
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 0709. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0709.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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