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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX67D0355

1967-04-14 HAWTHORNE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

CESSNA 172 · N8205X

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

B1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

HAWTHORNE MUNI

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

3,424 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

74

Age

31

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TURNOFF AFTER LNDG.PARKED ACFT,C150 N1926Z,SUBSTL

Investigator remarks

LEFT BRAKE WEAK PRIOR TO T/O.PLT MADE HIGH SPEED

Cause factors

  • 64/C/01 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT Cause
  • 64/C/50 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED Cause
  • 70/L/CJ L
    AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM)
  • 75/L/BF L
    SYSTEMS SEALS
  • 88/L/AJ L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE

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 1172. Source file NTSB_1967_3_1172.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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