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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX71DUJ36

1970-09-11 QUEEN CREEK, Arizona, United States None 2 aircraft Status: Completed

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 150J · N60068

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

AVRA VALLEY

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015070051

Total time

412 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

1,238

Age

25

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ENG,CAUSE UNK.CONTD ENG-OUT APCH,HIT TELFON WIRE.

Investigator remarks

PROP STOPPED WINDMILLING,STARTER WOULD NOT TURN

Cause factors

88/C/85 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Cause
74/C/HH C
POWERPLANT STARTERS Cause
64/B/15 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3952. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3952.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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