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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76DUJ37

1975-10-12 HOUSE ROCK, Arizona, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N69395 Stinson V-77 Fatal

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

STINSON V-77 · N69395

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

SANDERS RANCH

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

125° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000077-477

Total time

1,439 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

13,190

Age

64

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

S 50K.

Investigator remarks

STRONG LFT DWNWND GUST BLEW ACFT INTO ROCKS.GUST

Cause factors

82/A/J A
WEATHER SUDDEN WINDSHIFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/AQ J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND 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 3177. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3177.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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