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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX74DUG41

1974-02-06 LLANO, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7622

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHLEICHER ASW-24

Year of manufacture

1994

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20031230

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA4B94

Registrant of record

N7622 LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7622 Schweizer SGS232 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

SCHWEIZER SGS232 · N7622

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B4

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

200° / 30 kt

Temp

55° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000072

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

100

Age

27

Investigator remarks

CENTER WHEEL SGL FIXED LDG GR. WIND GUSTING 60K.

Cause factors

82/A/H A
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/A/M A
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS 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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0152. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0152.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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