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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX74FUA18

1974-03-03 SANTA ANA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1XX

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

COOPER PITTS SPECIAL S1-C

Year of manufacture

1973 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19781002

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00225

Registrant of record

LEWIS JAMES

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1XX PITTS SPCL S-1C None

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

PITTS SPCL S-1C · N1XX

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

ORANGE COUNTY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

300° / 12 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000JC-1

Total time

90 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,031

Age

47

Investigator remarks

PLT REPORTED STRONG GUST.

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS

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 0263. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0263.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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