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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76FUD07

1976-01-04 HAWTHORNE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N17003 Cessna 150L 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 150L · N17003

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

HAWTHORNE

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 3 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015073574

Total time

1,600 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

15

Age

16

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

,BOTH SUBSTL DMG.

Investigator remarks

SECOND SOLO FLT. HIT C-150 N2920J & PA-28 N9637W

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
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT

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 0055. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0055.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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