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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX66D0360

1966-04-30 COLTON, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8461A

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH A35

Year of manufacture

1949 · 17 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR E185 SERIES (205 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560601

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB989F

Registrant of record

LOVE LARRY E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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

BEECH B35 · N8461A

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

MORROW

Kind of flying

B0

Pilot

Certificate

C3 (C3)

Total hours

30,000

Age

288

Investigator remarks

SMOG.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/15 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 82/J/V J
    WEATHER OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION 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 2683. Source file NTSB_1966_3_2683.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.