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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX72DUG23

1971-10-09 ELSINORE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N68781

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

STINSON L-5E

Year of manufacture

1955 · 16 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR W670 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19680926

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A920C2

Registrant of record

REGISTRATION PENDING

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N68781 Stinson L-5E 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

STINSON L-5E · N68781

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

SKYLARK

Kind of flying

DI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000003960

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

821

Age

31

Cause factors

64/C/49 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED AND ALTITUDE Cause
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 4438. Source file NTSB_1971_3_4438.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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