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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX72DUJ22

1971-08-05 PARKER, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6570Z Piper PA-25 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-25 · N6570Z

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

POSTON

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000025-2119

Total time

2,707 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

5,700

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

S.

Investigator remarks

ACFT MUSHED IN ON TKOF.STRUTS WENT THRU BOTH WNG

Cause factors

64/A/24 A
PILOT IN COMMAND PREMATURE LIFT-OFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/81 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 2861. Source file NTSB_1971_3_2861.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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