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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX72FVM37

1972-06-16 PASO ROBLES, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N779B Beech A35 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

BEECH A35 · N779B

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

PASO ROBLES CO

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-1789

Total time

2,488 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

212

Age

49

Investigator remarks

THROTTLE CAME LOOSE

Cause factors

68/C/D0 C
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause
74/C/I0 C
POWERPLANT THROTTLE-POWER LEVER ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/29 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY SECURED Cause
88/C/BM C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISCONNECTED Cause
83/B/F B
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN

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 2148. Source file NTSB_1972_3_2148.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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