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Event LAX76FUJ72

1976-04-15 MESA, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9487G Cessna TU206E 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 TU206E · N9487G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

FALCON FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00U206-01687

Total time

1,448 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

183

Age

45

Cause factors

64/C/22 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause
64/L/80 L
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND
64/L/31 L
PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND

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 1009. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1009.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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