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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX78DUJ38

1978-03-19 SHOW LOW, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N75532

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 172N

Year of manufacture

1976 · 2 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19760910

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA2F78

Registrant of record

DARROW WILLIAM A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N75532 Cessna 172N 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 172N · N75532

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SHOW LOW

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

040° / 10 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017267787

Total time

583 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

125

Age

29

Investigator remarks

WND GUSTING 20K

Cause factors

64/C/80 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND Cause
64/B/62 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING
88/L/AQ L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND

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 0469. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0469.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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