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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76FUG53

1976-05-28 PALM SPRINGS, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5696L AMER AVCO AA1 Serious

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

AMER AVCO AA1 · N5696L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

D

Airport

PALM SPRINGS MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

330° / 30 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000096

Total time

1,152 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

128

Age

49

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NGS,RAN OUT OF FUEL. LND IN DESERT.

Investigator remarks

UN LND DEST DUE GUSTS 35K. DIVERTED TO PALM SPRI

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
88/C/63 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
64/C/27 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISIONS OR PLANNING Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 1585. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1585.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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