Atlas / NTSB / LAX72FUQ57

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX72FUQ57

1972-01-05 VAN NUYS, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4306G MCCULLOUGH J-2 None

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

MCCULLOUGH J-2 · N4306G

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

I

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

VAN NUYS

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

340° / 15 kt

Temp

48° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000016

Total time

111 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,180

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OF CTL LEVER P/N 2766.PLT UN CTL RATE OF DESCENT.

Investigator remarks

M/R RPM DECAYED FROM INCREASED PITCH DUE FAILURE

Cause factors

78/C/C1 C
ROTORCRAFT COLLECTIVE PITCH CONTROL SYSTEM Cause
88/C/BQ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS EXCESSIVE-WEAR/PLAY Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE 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 0024. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0024.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.