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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX74FUG06

1973-07-21 VICTORVILLE, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N7618 JEANIES TEENIE 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

JEANIES TEENIE · N7618

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — level (EA)

Operator type

D

Airport

EL MIRAGE DRY LKE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

270° / 5 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000005-644

Total time

1 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

253

Age

23

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

PLT-LOSS OF CTL AT ALT TOO LOW TO EFFECT RCVRY.

Investigator remarks

CRASH SITE EL MIRAGE DRY LAKE.

Cause factors

84/A/J A
MISCELLANEOUS WRITTEN CAUSE Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 2711. Source file NTSB_1973_3_2711.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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