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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX72DUJ07

1971-07-12 TUCSON, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9324Z Boeing B-17G 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

BOEING B-17G · N9324Z

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DE

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Kind of flying

CC

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000044-83542

Total time

4,634 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,020

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

G AIRFLOW TO CARB.1,2,3 PROPS MVD TO HI PTCH.

Investigator remarks

BAFFLE IN AIR INTAKE SCOOP SEPRTD FM NR 4 RESTRN

Cause factors

74/C/CL C
POWERPLANT RAM AIR ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
74/B/FY B
POWERPLANT OTHER
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 2811. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2811.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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