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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX77FUJ84

1977-08-04 CASA GRANDE, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N35166 Cessna 177B 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 177B · N35166

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017702242

Total time

900 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,475

Age

68

Investigator remarks

HIT HUMP IN ROAD. STOLEN ACFT.

Cause factors

64/C/03 C
PILOT IN COMMAND BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED Cause
64/C/35 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause
83/L/F L
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN
88/L/26 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS STOLEN OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF AIRCRAFT

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 1953. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1953.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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