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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX70FUQ04

1970-01-18 INYOKERN, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N6969S

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MONTAER LTDA MONTAER MC01

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A944A4

Registrant of record

MERRIMAN LUCAS

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

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 150 · N6969S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

42° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015067669

Total time

967 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

274

Age

32

Investigator remarks

DEW POINT 35 DEG.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/21 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
  • 88/C/02 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
  • 88/C/72 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause
  • 82/C/G C
    WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING Cause
  • 83/B/I B
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS

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 0221. Source file NTSB_1970_3_0221.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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