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LAX73AL032

1973-01-13 · GRAY MTN TR, Arizona, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
MOONEY A-2A · N5469F
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
IMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B2

Weather at impact

Sky
OBSCURATION

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000000B-269
Total time
1,142 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
1,000
Age
63

Investigator remarks

HIT CROSS ARM OF PWR LINE TWR 105 FT AGL IN FOG.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/29 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Joint cause
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/C J
    WEATHER FOG Joint cause
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint cause

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0116. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0116.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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