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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX71DUJ69

1971-03-13 MARICOPA, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7647

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHWEIZER SGS 1-34

Year of manufacture

1970 · 1 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19700504

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA53B1

Registrant of record

RENFRO JOHN E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7647 Schweizer 1-34 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

SCHWEIZER 1-34 · N7647

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

ESTRELLA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000027

Total time

172 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

558

Age

57

Investigator remarks

GLIDER WHEEL EQUIPPED.

Cause factors

64/A/25 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/62 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING 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 0833. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0833.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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