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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX73DUM19

1973-02-18 BRAWLEY, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N19116 Cessna 150L 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

CESSNA 150L · N19116

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015074181

Total time

35 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

160

Age

28

Investigator remarks

LNDD ON ABANDONED AIR STRIP.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/22 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS
83/K/Y K
TERRAIN OTHER Joint factor

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 0355. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0355.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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