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LAX78FUJ74

1978-07-01 · TAYLOR, Arizona, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
PITTS S-1T · N9WT
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D7
Operator type
D
Airport
TAYLOR
Kind of flying
DF

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
280° / 8 kt
Temp
87° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
0000000T-172
Total time
594 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
DA (DA)
Total hours
31,000
Age
62

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LATE.

Investigator remarks

INTENTIONAL INVERTED SPIN,INITIATED RECOVERY TOO

Cause factors

  • 64/A/53 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1510. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1510.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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