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LAX75DUJ25

1974-09-04 · WILLCOX, Arizona, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N344AA has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE G-IV, built 1992), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
AERO COMDR S-2D · N344AA
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
DD
Operator type
Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)
Kind of flying
CB

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
000600-1393D
Total time
2,000 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
5,000
Age
36

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

R,ELECTED TO GO ARND & UNDR WIRES.HIT CABLE.

Investigator remarks

ENROUTE TO TREAT CROP AT LOW ALT.ENCNTRED PWR TW

Cause factors

  • 64/A/15 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint cause
  • 64/J/08 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT Joint cause

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2817. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2817.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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