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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79FUG27

1979-03-24 UPLAND, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N9064H

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL INC S-60A

Year of manufacture

1993

Engine

NONE NONE

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19930227

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AC8862

Registrant of record

BALLOON QUEST INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N9064H Cessna 172M None

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 172M · N9064H

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

CABLE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

68° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017265926

Total time

864 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

214

Age

40

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
70/C/CJ C
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause
88/C/AK C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LOW FLUID LEVEL Cause

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 0603. Source file NTSB_1979_3_0603.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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