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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX78DUQ24

1978-04-30 MOJAVE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7514B Champion 7FC 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

CHAMPION 7FC · N7514B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

MOJAVE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

260° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000018

Total time

4,500 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

845

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ESTIMATED AT 50MPH.

Investigator remarks

AIRCRAFT FLIPPED OVER BY GUST OF WIND.GUSTS WERE

Cause factors

64/A/38 A
PILOT IN COMMAND TAXIED/PARKED WITHOUT PROPER ASSISTANCE 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 0734. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0734.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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