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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX73FUD08

1973-02-16 HAWTHORNE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7339Q Cessna 182P 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

CESSNA 182P · N7339Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

HAWTHORNE MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018260979

Total time

626 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

314

Age

31

Investigator remarks

UN STOP ON RWY,HIT WOODEN PLATFORM.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/Y B
TERRAIN OTHER

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 0305. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0305.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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