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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX79FUJ11

1978-10-28 MARANA, 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

KNIGHT TWST WHB-1 · N67P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

MARANA AIR PARK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

120° / 10 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000WHB-1

Total time

300 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,111

Age

54

Cause factors

  • 64/A/22 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/J/31 J
    PILOT IN COMMAND LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT Joint cause
  • 88/J/94 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint 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 3746. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3746.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.