NTSB CAROL · Event
Event LAX75DUQ31
Registry · N4488C
FAA Aircraft Registry record.
Make / Model
CESSNA 195B
Year of manufacture
1953 · 22 years old at event
TCDS
A-790 · TEXTRON AVIATION INC
Engine
JACOBS R755B SERIES (275 hp)
Seats / Engines
5 seats · 1 engine
Last airworthiness date
19560608
ADS-B equipped
Yes — Mode-S A56BC8
Registrant of record
NIX TERRY W
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
CESSNA 195 · N4488C
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
Cruise — descent (EF)
Operator type
D
Airport
MOJAVE AIRPORT
Kind of flying
B0
Weather at impact
Sky
CLEAR
Wind
190° / 20 kt
Temp
82° F
Aircraft history
Serial number
16072
Total time
2,500 hrs
Pilot
Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
5,000
Age
54
Investigator remarks
GUSTING TO 30K.
Cause factors
- 64/C/22 C PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
- 64/C/28 C PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS Cause
- 82/L/H L WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
- 88/K/94 K MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
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 1396.
Source file
NTSB_1975_3_1396.txt.
Modern CAROL record on
data.ntsb.gov ↗.
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 1994 · Journal article (JAAER)
Postsecondary Aviation Programs in the United States: 1950 and 1985
This study examined aviation programs in accredited postsecondary institutions in the United States for the years 1950 and 1985.
- arXiv 2025 · arXiv preprint
Visual Heading Prediction for Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
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- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2023 · Conference paper
Why should airline workers be trained to respond to fume events?
The potential for engine oil and hydraulic fluid fumes to contaminate the ventilation air supplied to the aircraft cabin and flight deck has been recognized since the 1950s as a function of the design…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2022 · Journal article (IJAAA)
Classifıcation of Survivor/Non-Survivor Passengers in Fatal Aviation Accidents: A Machine Learning Approach
The safety concept primarily examines the most fatal (resulting in dead passengers) accidents of aviation history in this study.
- NASA NTRS 2019 · Conference Proceedings
Antecedents and analogues - Experimental aircraft
The paper reviews the development of experimental aircraft from 1953 to the present. Consideration is given to the X-series experimental aircraft, to X-15 (the first aerospace plane), to the transitio…
- NASA NTRS 2019 · Other
Lead-Lag Control for Helicopter Vibration and Noise Reduction
As a helicopter transitions from hover to forward flight, the main rotor blades experience an asymmetry in flow field around the azimuth, with the blade section tangential velocities increasing on the…
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