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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX73IL060

1973-05-17 SAFFORD, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5785M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MOONEY M20J

Year of manufacture

1984

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19841218

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A76F34

Registrant of record

CANON JAMES P

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5785M Cessna T310P 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 T310P · N5785M

Damage

Minor

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

C

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

Business

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000310P-0085

Total time

1,139 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

15,000

Age

48

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OT AIR & HEAT TRANSFER TO ENG NACELLE COMPT.

Investigator remarks

L ENG TURBOCHARGER V BAND CLAMP FAILED,ALLOWED H

Cause factors

74/C/G4 C
POWERPLANT CLAMPS Cause
88/C/AT C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVER TORQUED Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
88/C/51 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE Cause

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 5 0014. Source file NTSB_1973_5_0014.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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