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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX74FUJ25

1973-09-28 SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1361Q

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 310C

Year of manufacture

1959 · 14 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

19591021

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A09405

Registrant of record

LANNIGAN ANTHONY ROBERT

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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

CESSNA 150 · N1361Q

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

SCOTTSDALE

Kind of flying

A0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000015072661

Total time

1,862 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

817

Age

29

Cause factors

  • 64/A/16 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED 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 4055. Source file NTSB_1973_3_4055.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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