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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX74AL041

1973-11-24 FILLMORE, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5259B Mooney M-20 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

MOONEY M-20 · N5259B

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

300° / 15 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001122

Total time

1,939 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

150

Age

55

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

& AUX SPAR.WING SEPARATION.

Investigator remarks

IMPROPERLY BONDED GLUE JOINTS.DETERIORATED RIBS

Cause factors

68/A/D0 A
PERSONNEL IMPROPER MAINTENANCE (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
68/A/D4 A
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE INSPECTION OF AIRCRAFT (MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL) Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/AA A
AIRFRAME SPARS Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/AB A
AIRFRAME RIBS,STRINGER,CAP STRIPS Cause — pilot/personnel action
70/A/AE A
AIRFRAME SKIN AND ATTACHMENTS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/95 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/49 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT Joint 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 3 4088. Source file NTSB_1973_3_4088.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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