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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX77DUG22

1977-01-16 EL MIRAGE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5150V

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 560XL

Year of manufacture

2008

Engine

P&W CANADA PW545B

Seats / Engines

13 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20141117

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6766E

Registrant of record

MACON AERO CONNECTIONS LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5150V Bensen B-8 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

BENSEN B-8 · N5150V

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

I

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

EL MIRAGE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000001919E

Total time

106 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

125

Age

59

Investigator remarks

SETTLED INTO BRUSH.

Cause factors

64/A/23 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 0034. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0034.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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