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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX72FUQ16

1971-08-30 OJAI, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N7229C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH 58

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19860401

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A9AE90

Registrant of record

LIETZKE GERALD P

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N7229C Grumman TBM-3E Minor

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 TBM-3E · N7229C

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

CD

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000086195

Total time

2,899 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

4,913

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FIRE BROKE OUT,CRASH LNDD IN PLOWED FLD.

Investigator remarks

REAR MASTER ROD BEARING FAILED,#3 CONROD FAILED,

Cause factors

74/C/AC C
POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS 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 4492. Source file NTSB_1971_3_4492.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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