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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX74FUG43

1974-02-24 RIVERSIDE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1436

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

RAND KR-1

Year of manufacture

1971 · 3 years old at event

Engine

VOLKSWAGEN CONVERSION (36 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19780728

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0B0FF

Registrant of record

EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1436 RAND KR-1 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

RAND KR-1 · N1436

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Airport

FLABOB

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

360° / 20 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Total time

167 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

272

Age

41

Investigator remarks

GUSTING TO 25K.

Cause factors

64/C/29 C
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
64/C/79 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL Cause
82/L/H L
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS
80/K/BY K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES 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 0261. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0261.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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