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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX72DUM25

1972-03-30 BRAWLEY, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

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

BOEING B75 · N65564

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DL

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

OCONNELL

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

59° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000757595

Total time

8,226 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

9,000

Age

35

Investigator remarks

HIT A GUY WIRE.

Cause factors

  • 64/A/54 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE 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 1107. Source file NTSB_1972_3_1107.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.