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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX71FUG92

1971-06-15 UPLAND, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N54140 Fairchild M62A None

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

FAIRCHILD M62A · N54140

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000T42-3124

Total time

1,742 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

4,000

Age

39

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ED FIELD.R WING,LDG GR SEPRTD ON IMPACT.

Investigator remarks

ACFT LOST FUEL PRESSURE,ENG QUIT.PLT LND IN PLOW

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 2082. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2082.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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