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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX73FUG03

1972-07-18 HESPERIA, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5941P Piper PA-24 Minor

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

PIPER PA-24 · N5941P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

HESPERIA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 5 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000024-1031

Total time

993 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

977

Age

51

Investigator remarks

HIT 15 FT TREE ABOUT 100 FT FROM RWY THRESHOLD.

Cause factors

64/C/48 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
88/L/22 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 1051. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1051.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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