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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX77FA075

1977-09-25 YUCCA VALLEY, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2119E

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172R

Year of manufacture

2004

Engine

LYCOMING IO-360-L2A (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20040331

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1C0D1

Registrant of record

MID-ISLAND AIR SERVICE INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2119E Bellanca 7AC Fatal

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

BELLANCA 7AC · N2119E

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

82° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00007AC-1507

Total time

1,792 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,256

Age

42

Investigator remarks

RECOVERED TOO LOW FROM INTENTIONAL SPIN.

Cause factors

64/A/53 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE 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 3074. Source file NTSB_1977_3_3074.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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