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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX66F0263

1966-03-14 HEBER, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N68730 Boeing B75-N1 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 B75-N1 · N68730

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

GRAHAM

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 7 kt

Temp

66° F

Aircraft history

Total time

5,587 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

10,767

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

INDER

Investigator remarks

TAIL WHEEL SHOCK STRUT PISTON SEPARATED FROM CYL

Cause factors

70/C/CD C
AIRFRAME TAILWHEEL ASSEMBLIES 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 0713. Source file NTSB_1966_3_0713.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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