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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX78FUG19

1978-03-06 SAN BERNARDINO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N76WH

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HALE WILLIAM P KITFOX MODEL III

Year of manufacture

1999

Engine

ROTAX SEE BOMBADIER

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19990707

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AA412B

Registrant of record

NEIDHARDT CLIFFORD W

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N76WH AEROSPATLE SA341G 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

AEROSPATLE SA341G · N76WH

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C2

Operator type

D

Airport

TRI-CITY

Kind of flying

B3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001238

Total time

983 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,760

Age

30

Investigator remarks

MECH WITH NEW HELD RATING WAS EXTRA CREW ABOARD.

Cause factors

64/C/23 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS 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 0528. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0528.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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