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LAX72AL029

1971-10-24 · DRAGOON, Arizona, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N709T has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (BEECH A36, built 1978), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
TEMCO D-16A · N709T
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dusk
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
Business
Kind of flying
B2

Weather at impact

Sky
OBSCURATION

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000TTN-78

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Age
37

Investigator remarks

FLEW INTO OBSCURED MTN SLOPE.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/B J
    WEATHER RAIN Joint cause
  • 82/J/X J
    WEATHER THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 4466. Source file NTSB_1971_3_4466.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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