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Event LAX78FUJ74

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

Aircraft involved

N9WT Pitts S-1T Fatal

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-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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

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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