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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX72DUJ92

1972-04-08 SUPERIOR, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N174L

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 195

Year of manufacture

1950 · 22 years old at event

Engine

JACOBS R755A SERIES (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560416

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A12903

Registrant of record

ALTITUDES AIRCRAFT GROUP LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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 195 · N174L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

SUPERIOR

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000007539

Total time

3,356 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

5,247

Age

59

Investigator remarks

HIT HOLE IN RWY DISENGAGING X-WND LDG GR.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/79 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 80/J/BY J
    AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER Joint 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 0739. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0739.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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