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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX69F0299

1969-03-08 DAGGETT, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5551D Beech H35 Minor

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

BEECH H35 · N5551D

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

DAGGETT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Total time

4,200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,323

Age

38

Investigator remarks

CRANKSHAFT BROKE AT MAIN BEARING JOURNAL.

Cause factors

74/C/AB C
POWERPLANT CRANKSHAFT 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 0476. Source file NTSB_1969_3_0476.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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