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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79DUJ69

1979-05-03 MESA, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

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

CESSNA 152 · N24527

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

DIRT STRIP

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015280312

Total time

1,612 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

639

Age

22

Cause factors

  • 66/C/25 C
    DUAL STUDENT Cause
  • 64/C/30 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT Cause
  • 64/C/07 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
  • 88/K/91 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING Joint factor

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 0988. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0988.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.