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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76DUK11

1976-09-06 CAREFREE, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9219A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 170

Year of manufacture

1949 · 27 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C145 SERIES (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560511

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S ACC575

Registrant of record

WATKINS DONLEY E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9219A Cessna 170A 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

CESSNA 170A · N9219A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000018980

Total time

345 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

412

Age

43

Cause factors

64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/B/22 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS

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 2429. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2429.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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