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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX80DUJ14

1979-09-24 SHOW LOW, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N47921 Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N47921

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Z

Airport

SHOW LOW

Kind of flying

A1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

200° / 3 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7890152

Total time

1,350 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

17

Age

42

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
88/L/91 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS TOUCH AND GO LANDING

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 2860. Source file NTSB_1979_3_2860.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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