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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX74AL047

1973-12-28 HESPERIA, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N8263Z

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-28-236

Year of manufacture

1980

Engine

LYCOMING 0-540 SERIES (250 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800909

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S AB49FE

Registrant of record

BECKER MATTHEW P

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N8263Z Cessna 210-5 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

CESSNA 210-5 · N8263Z

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

HESPERIA MUNI

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 30 kt

Temp

65° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000205-0263

Total time

2,052 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

74

Age

41

Investigator remarks

PLT IN RT SEAT.TKOF APPEARED SLUGGISH.GUSTS 4OK.

Cause factors

64/A/16 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/81 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/1/AW 1
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FEMALE PILOT Subordinate · 1

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 3540. Source file NTSB_1973_3_3540.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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