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LAX73FUM34

1973-06-05 · CALEXICO, California, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
FAIRCHILD M-62 · N67552
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Day
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
DG
Operator type
Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)
Kind of flying
CA

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000T43-4381
Total time
1,376 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
8,050
Age
37

Cause factors

  • 64/A/54 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 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 2418. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2418.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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