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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76DUG69

1976-06-19 ADELANTO, California, United States Minor 2 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N697U

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHWEIZER SGS 2-32

Year of manufacture

1965 · 11 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19650709

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A94679

Registrant of record

NEVADA SOARING ASSOCIATION INC

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

PIPER PA-22 · N9627D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

CABLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 10 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000022-6539

Total time

1,800 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

672

Age

53

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 2056. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2056.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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