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LAX74AL017

1973-08-18 · SHOSHONE, California, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
MOONEY M20-F · N6311Q
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
EJ
Operator type
Personal/private
Airport
SHOSHONE
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000670404
Total time
1,685 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
1,321
Age
55

Cause factors

  • 64/A/07 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/79 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/W J
    WEATHER HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE Joint cause
  • 88/J/22 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH Joint cause

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2538. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2538.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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