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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76AL062

1976-03-11 CAREFREE, Arizona, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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 337 · N7CF

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

CAREFREE

Kind of flying

B9

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

135° / 18 kt

Temp

45° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000P3370041

Total time

500 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Age

28

Investigator remarks

ACFT STOLEN.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/52 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/26 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STOLEN OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AIRCRAFT 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 1433. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1433.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.