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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX71FUJ56

1971-01-27 MARANA, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7580R Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N7580R

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

MARANA AUX

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000028-22147

Total time

2,684 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

67

Age

28

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

P ON RWY.

Investigator remarks

UN CLR TREES IN FLT,PLT ABORTED GO-AROUND.UN STO

Cause factors

88/C/85 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SIMULATED CONDITIONS Cause
64/B/07 B
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND
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 0437. Source file NTSB_1971_3_0437.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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