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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX66F0106

1965-08-21 OXNARD, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N67850 Boeing B-75N1 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

BOEING B-75N1 · N67850

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DE

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

270° / 10 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Total time

4,662 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,845

Age

33

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PWR PLT-CAM REDUCTION GEAR FAILED.

Cause factors

84/C/J C
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 2746. Source file NTSB_1965_3_2746.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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