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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX67A0049

1966-11-15 LOS ALAMITOS, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7769B CURTISS C-46 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

CURTISS C-46 · N7769B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Airport

LOS ALAMITOS

Weather at impact

Sky

PARTIAL OBSCURATION

Wind

220° / 4 kt

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Total time

20,533 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

7,665

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TINGS FAILED.

Investigator remarks

LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR DRAG LINK ASSY ATTACH FIT

Cause factors

70/A/CM A
AIRFRAME GEAR LOCKING MECHANISM Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/AH A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PREVIOUS DAMAGE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 1 0058. Source file NTSB_1966_1_0058.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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