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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX74FUD05

1974-03-08 COMPTON, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1542P

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-22-135

Year of manufacture

1954 · 20 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-290 SERIES (140 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19560203

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0DBB7

Registrant of record

LEWIS DAVID J

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1542P 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 · N1542P

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

D

Airport

COMPTON

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

22-240600000

Total time

3,183 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

239

Age

29

Investigator remarks

BROKEN PISTON NO 3 CYL.

Cause factors

74/C/AE C
POWERPLANT PISTON,PISTON RINGS Cause
88/C/36 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
83/L/A L
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0415. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0415.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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