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 _ 7 - The aircraft was equipped With two General Electric Company CJ-6lO-L

engines, installed as follows:

Pesition Serial Number Total Time 1 241081 #2.? 2 2h1085 #2.?

The fuel on board was JP—l, which is approved for the Lear Jet, but it did

not contain the required Phillips Anti-icing Additive PFASBMB concentration. The gross weight of N2h3F at takeoff from Palm Springs was computed to

be 11,6h9 pounds which was below the maximum allowable of 12,500 pounds. The

center of graVity (c.g.) of 26 percent was Within the allowable range of

16 to 31.5 percent.

1.7 MEteorological Information

The U. S. Weather Bureau (USWB) aViation area forecast issued by the Los Angeles office at 10h5, for a 12-hour period, was in part as follows-

Coastal waters and inland to mountains multiple layers broken to overcast With intermittent light rain. Ceilings 2,000-h,000 feet lowering after 2100 to 1,200—2,000 feet. Tops generally 15,000 feet, but locally to above 20,000 feet. ViSibilities 2-5 miles lowering to 1-3 miles after 2100. Light to locally moderate turbulence in clouds espeCially Vicinity of mountains and over deserts.

At 12h5, Airmet Alfa T was issued warning that terrain would be oc-

casionally obscured above k,000 feet, with conditions continuing beyond 1700.