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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX74FUJ37

1974-01-29 GOODYEAR, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9303Q Beech 95-B55 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

BEECH 95-B55 · N9303Q

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Part 121 (air carrier)

Airport

LITCHFIELD

Kind of flying

A3

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

030° / 7 kt

Temp

37° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000TC1407

Total time

4,264 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

346

Age

21

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

ED OK.

Investigator remarks

PROP HUB FAILED.BLADE STRUCK ACFT NOSE.PLT ABORT

Cause factors

74/A/FB A
POWERPLANT HUBS Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/A/36 A
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE 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 0266. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0266.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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