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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX66D0115

1965-09-10 SANTA ANA, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N68628 BEECHCRAFT A45 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

BEECHCRAFT A45 · N68628

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

L

Airport

ORANGE COUNTY

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

210° / 8 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Total time

890 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

170

Age

29

Investigator remarks

PARKED AIRCRAFT MOONEY M21 N8117F SUBST. DAMAGE.

Cause factors

64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL 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 2777. Source file NTSB_1965_3_2777.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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