Atlas / NTSB / LAX78FUJ30

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX78FUJ30

1978-03-04 MARANA, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N30JP

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AEROTEK PITTS SPECIAL S-1S

Year of manufacture

1977 · 1 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING AEIO-360 SER (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19960408

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A31DCF

Registrant of record

PHILPOTT CONNOR J RYAN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N30JP Pitts S-1S 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

PITTS S-1S · N30JP

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

MARANA

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000010052

Total time

156 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,337

Age

34

Cause factors

64/A/22 A
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0471. Source file NTSB_1978_3_0471.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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