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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX73FUM29

1973-04-14 LA JOLLA, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6356N Champion 7GCBC Fatal

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

CHAMPION 7GCBC · N6356N

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

TORREY PINES

Kind of flying

DI

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

260° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000094

Total time

1,837 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

475

Age

24

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PLT MADE IMPROPER GO ARND.WINCH OP DIDNT CUT CABLE

Investigator remarks

HIT TOW WINCH CABLE FROM RELEASED GLIDER IN AIR.

Cause factors

64/C/15 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause
64/L/20 L
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC.
68/L/K3 L
PERSONNEL GROUND CREWMAN

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 0994. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0994.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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