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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX77DUG16

1976-12-19 PALM SPRINGS, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N33378

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-180

Year of manufacture

1975 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING O&VO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19890811

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3A462

Registrant of record

DE YOUNG ROBERT

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N33378 Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N33378

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B0

Operator type

D

Airport

PALM SPRINGS

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7505139

Total time

1,360 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

113

Age

38

Investigator remarks

PARKED ACFT,CESSNA 210 N2242S,MINOR DMG.

Cause factors

64/A/38 A
PILOT IN COMMAND TAXIED/PARKED WITHOUT PROPER ASSISTANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/54 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3513. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3513.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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