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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76AL064

1976-03-18 GILA BEND, 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 182J · N2923F

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise climb (DB)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN/LOWER SCATTERED

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018257023

Total time

2,943 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

929

Age

38

Investigator remarks

HIT PWR LINES 55FT AGL. RECOVERY DATE 3/19/76.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/15 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/14 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS UNWARRANTED LOW FLYING Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 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 0467. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0467.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.