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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX72FUQ15

1971-08-25 PALMDALE, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N511D

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH B300

Year of manufacture

1997

Engine

P&W CANADA PT6A-60A (1050 hp)

Seats / Engines

19 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20250905

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A66571

Registrant of record

GARMIN INTERNATIONAL INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N511D N.AMERICAN P-51D 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

N.AMERICAN P-51D · N511D

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000044-74950

Total time

2,654 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Age

40

Investigator remarks

L WING SEPARATED.

Cause factors

64/A/09 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXCEEDED DESIGNED STRESS LIMITS OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/94 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/49 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT Joint cause

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 3797. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3797.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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