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LAX77FVJ43

1977-04-05 · BISBEE, Arizona, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
STITS SA-3A · N8157
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
Wind
017° / 8 kt
Temp
76° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
00000000P766
Total time
117 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
890
Age
51

Investigator remarks

LOW LEVEL ACROBATIC MANEUVER.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/33 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 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).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0779. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0779.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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