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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX74DUM20

1974-02-23 BRAWLEY, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1837P Piper PA-22 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

PIPER PA-22 · N1837P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

BRAWLEY MUNI

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

010° / 10 kt

Temp

64° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002617

Total time

1,778 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

3,280

Age

47

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

REET,NOSE GR HIT CURB.

Investigator remarks

GRAINS OF SAND FOUND IN CARB CK VALVE. LND IN ST

Cause factors

74/C/CG C
POWERPLANT CARBURETOR Cause
84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/K/Y K
TERRAIN OTHER Joint factor

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 0739. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0739.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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