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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76DUM28

1976-08-08 SAN DIEGO, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1421J

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL 112A

Year of manufacture

1975 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING I0360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19751217

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0ACA2

Registrant of record

BRINDLE RICHARD L

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

AERO COMDR 112 · N1421J

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

D

Airport

MONTGOMERY FLD

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

310° / 4 kt

Temp

72° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

Z

Total time

204 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

763

Age

49

Cause factors

  • 64/A/07 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/79 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SUNGLARE 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 2195. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2195.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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