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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX67F0095

1966-08-17 MARICOPA, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N68162

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING B75N1

Year of manufacture

1943 · 23 years old at event

Engine

P&W R-985 SERIES (450 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560505

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A90A33

Registrant of record

POZANAC CHARLES J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N68162 Boeing A-75 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 A-75 · N68162

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Day

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

5,942 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,000

Age

51

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

65 SHEARED.

Investigator remarks

6 RIVETS IN ENGINE CAM REDUCTION DRIVE GEAR PN39

Cause factors

74/C/LY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor

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 3359. Source file NTSB_1966_3_3359.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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