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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX72FUG53

1972-02-06 ADELANTO, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4755G Bensen B8-M Fatal

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

BENSEN B8-M · N4755G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

I

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D9

Operator type

D

Airport

EL MIRAGE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000000HL-1

Pilot

Certificate

Airline transport

Total hours

38

Age

26

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GL.

Investigator remarks

COPTER OBSRVD DSNDG IN STEEP NS DN ATT FM 60FT A

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED 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 0717. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0717.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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