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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79DUK08

1979-07-28 MARANA, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N11841

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 150L

Year of manufacture

1974 · 5 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR 0-200 SERIES (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19740307

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A04CE9

Registrant of record

AMOR AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 150 · N11841

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

D

Airport

AVRA VALLEY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

310° / 10 kt

Temp

100° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000075667

Total time

2,391 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

975

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TING 12 KTS.

Investigator remarks

PLT STATED ACFT WAS STRUCK BY DUST DEVIL.WND GUS

Cause factors

  • 82/A/N A
    WEATHER LOCAL WHIRLWIND 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 1907. Source file NTSB_1979_3_1907.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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