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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX71DVA42

1970-12-05 LONE PINE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N86312

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

EMBRAER S A ERJ 170-200 LL

Year of manufacture

2014

Engine

GE CF34-8E5

Seats / Engines

88 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20241030

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ABDC92

Registrant of record

UNITED AIRLINES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N86312 Aeronca 11AC 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

AERONCA 11AC · N86312

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

D

Airport

MONACHE MEADOWS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000118

Total time

2,856 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,231

Age

37

Investigator remarks

LOW PASS OVER STRIP WHEELS CONTACTED SNOW.

Cause factors

64/C/53 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE Cause
80/C/BC C
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES SNOW ON RUNWAY Cause

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 4349. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4349.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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