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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX72FUG69

1972-04-15 HESPERIA, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5532T Cessna 172E Serious

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 172E · N5532T

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

HESPERIA TROUT FA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

180° / 7 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017251432

Total time

1,315 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,011

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

SETS OF PWR LINES ABOUT 28 FT AGL.PROPERLY MARKED

Investigator remarks

ATTEMPTED T/O FROM UNIMPROVED STRIP CROSSED BY 2

Cause factors

64/A/33 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE 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 0166. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0166.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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