Atlas / NTSB / LAX71FUQ24

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX71FUQ24

1970-10-03 AGUA DULCE, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5666L AMER AVCO AA1 Serious

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

AMER AVCO AA1 · N5666L

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

AGUA DULCE

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

070° / 10 kt

Temp

66° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000AA-1-0066

Total time

295 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,275

Age

27

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ITS. HIT TRANSFORMER POLE APRXLY 5FT BLO TOP.

Investigator remarks

OVRLOADED APRXLY 70LBS,BARELY OUT OF REAR CG LIM

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS
88/L/76 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY LOADED AIRCRAFT-WEIGHT-AND/OR C.G.

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 4624. Source file NTSB_1970_3_4624.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.