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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX70F0016

1969-06-18 GOODYEAR, Arizona, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N53429 Boeing A75N1 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

BOEING A75N1 · N53429

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Total time

5,715 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

800

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NOT DISASSEMBLED.

Investigator remarks

NO COMPRESSION IN NR 4 CYL.SAND FOUND IN CYL.ENG

Cause factors

74/C/AD C
POWERPLANT CYLINDER ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED

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 1732. Source file NTSB_1969_3_1732.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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