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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX72DUJ21

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

Registry · N9741Y

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 35-B33

Year of manufacture

1963 · 8 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19630301

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AD9513

Registrant of record

KADLECOVIC MARTIN

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

BEECH A33 · N9741Y

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

TURNER RANCH

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000CD-610

Total time

1,500 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Age

48

Investigator remarks

PLT RPTD DUST DEVIL.HIT ROCK PILE.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/48 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE Cause
  • 82/L/N L
    WEATHER LOCAL WHIRLWIND

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 2659. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2659.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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