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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX71FUJ12

1970-08-05 SOMERTON, Arizona, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N58098 Boeing A75N1 Fatal

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 · N58098

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DK

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

20TH ST.STRIP

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

104° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000075-4375

Total time

4,595 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

10,000

Age

44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ED AND NAUSEATED.PLT SPRAYING AZODRIN.

Investigator remarks

PLT FLEW 4HRS IN MORNING COMPLAINED OF BEING TIR

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3153. Source file NTSB_1970_3_3153.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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