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LAX78FVA10

1977-11-01 · PIXLEY, California, United States · Serious · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
AERONCA 0-58B · N56407
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Airport
PIXLEY
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
00-581313003

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
206
Age
32

Cause factors

  • 74/A/KA A
    POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/B/I B
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 4118. Source file NTSB_1977_3_4118.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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