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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX74FUD06

1974-06-15 SNTA MONICA, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2MR

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

RANS S-7

Year of manufacture

1991

Engine

BOMBARDIER ROTAX (ALL)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19911104

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A18E74

Registrant of record

KARGER JOHN A

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2MR STARDUSTER SA300 Minor

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

STARDUSTER SA300 · N2MR

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

021° / 8 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Total time

259 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

313

Age

38

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

FROM OCEAN TO SHORE.

Investigator remarks

NR 3 CYL EXH VALVE FAILED.PLT LND ON BEACH,APCHD

Cause factors

74/C/AF C
POWERPLANT VALVE ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
64/B/35 B
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN
88/K/22 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH Joint factor
88/K/AQ K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DOWNWIND Joint factor
83/K/K K
TERRAIN SANDY 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 1311. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1311.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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