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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX73FUD10

1973-06-09 HAWTHORNE, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N87260 ERCO 415-C 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

ERCO 415-C · N87260

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

HAWTHORNE MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

240° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000433

Total time

808 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

327

Age

35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

C AND DODGE CARS.CRANKSHAFT & CAMSHAFT BEARNGS.

Investigator remarks

L LDG GR HIT VW AND R WG AND R LDG GR HIT PONTIA

Cause factors

74/C/AB C
POWERPLANT CRANKSHAFT Cause
74/C/AY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 1518. Source file NTSB_1973_3_1518.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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