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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX78DUJ41

1978-04-01 NEW RIVER, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7754S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SCHWEIZER SGS 1-26D

Year of manufacture

1969 · 9 years old at event

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19690428

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA7E8F

Registrant of record

HURNI ROBERT L

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7754S Schweizer 1-26D 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

SCHWEIZER 1-26D · N7754S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

C

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

045° / 15 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000454

Total time

1,710 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

139

Age

16

Investigator remarks

WIND GUSTS TO 20KTS.

Cause factors

64/A/52 A
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS Joint cause

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 0580. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0580.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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