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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX75DUQ20

1975-01-12 LLANO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N126TD

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHWEIZER SGS 1-26E

Year of manufacture

1974 · 1 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19740516

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A06BA9

Registrant of record

OLIVER THOMAS M

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N126TD Schweizer SGS126 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

SCHWEIZER SGS126 · N126TD

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

045° / 10 kt

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000596

Total time

86 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

18

Investigator remarks

LEFT WING HIT HIDDEN STEEL GIRDER.GUSTS 25K.

Cause factors

64/C/27 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
64/B/48 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE
83/B/E B
TERRAIN HIDDEN OBSTRUCTIONS
82/L/M L
WEATHER DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS

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 0092. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0092.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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