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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX73FUJ68

1973-04-19 CASA GRANDE, Arizona, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9424R Snow S2A Fatal

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

SNOW S2A · N9424R

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DG

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

FRANCISCO GRANDE

Kind of flying

CA

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000001054-A

Total time

4,709 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,105

Age

48

Investigator remarks

DISSECTING AORTIC ANEURYSM.SPRAYING GOLF COURSE.

Cause factors

64/A/64 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INCAPACITATION Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 3538. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3538.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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