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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76DUG66

1976-07-06 EL MONTE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5FN

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AMERICAN CHAMPION AIRCRAFT 7GCBC

Year of manufacture

2013

Engine

LYCOMING O-320-B2B (160 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20130205

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A635C8

Registrant of record

M J S CORP

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5FN Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N5FN

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

EL MONTE

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

190° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000287625005

Total time

813 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

35

Age

34

Cause factors

64/C/25 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
64/B/79 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 1709. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1709.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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