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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX72FUM03

1971-07-18 SAN YSIDRO, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5005 Grumman F8F-2 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

GRUMMAN F8F-2 · N5005

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Airport

BROWN

Kind of flying

DF

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

82° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001105

Total time

992 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

4,359

Age

32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FT CAUGHT FIRE. ABNORMAL PWR SETTINGS WERE USED.

Investigator remarks

INTERNAL ENG FAILURE DURING AIR RACE. ENG AND AC

Cause factors

74/C/AY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
88/B/51 B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE

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 1165. Source file NTSB_1971_3_1165.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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