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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX74AL056

1974-01-25 CAREFREE, Arizona, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N15441 Piper PA-28 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

PIPER PA-28 · N15441

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Personal/private

Kind of flying

B2

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

090° / 4 kt

Temp

49° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

028-73-10045

Total time

340 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

135

Age

30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OR STAB SEPRTD.ACFT RCVRD 1/27/74.FLT PHASE UNK.

Investigator remarks

L WING PANEL SEP AT BUTT LINE STA BL-22.VERT & H

Cause factors

64/A/09 A
PILOT IN COMMAND EXCEEDED DESIGNED STRESS LIMITS OF AIRCRAFT Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/49 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT Joint cause
88/J/94 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 1711. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1711.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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