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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX75AL048

1975-03-08 KELSO, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N711LZ

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 560XL

Year of manufacture

2006

Engine

P&W CANADA PW545B

Seats / Engines

13 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20060103

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A980D6

Registrant of record

BG22 LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

AERO COMDR 500S · N711LZ

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001846

Total time

694 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

9,000

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

2/75.

Investigator remarks

ADVSD VFR FLT NOT RECOMMENDED. RECOVERY DATE 3/1

Cause factors

  • 64/A/04 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/A/27 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/29 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Joint cause
  • 82/J/A J
    WEATHER LOW CEILING Joint cause
  • 82/J/B J
    WEATHER RAIN Joint cause
  • 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 1119. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1119.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.