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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX69F0241

1969-01-15 HAWTHORNE, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3313P Piper PA-23 Serious

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

PIPER PA-23 · N3313P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EJ

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

HAWTHORNE

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Total time

3,689 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

16,274

Age

49

Investigator remarks

SIMULATED SINGLE ENG GO AROUND,GR NOT RETRACTED.

Cause factors

88/C/85 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Cause
64/C/16 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause
88/C/07 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURES Cause
88/3/AW 3
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 3

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 0144. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0144.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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