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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX74FUN47

1974-03-24 PHOENIX, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N67458

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

HOWARD AIRCRAFT DGA-15P

Year of manufacture

1920 · 54 years old at event

Engine

P&W R-985 SERIES (450 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19551118

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A8EDBC

Registrant of record

WALKER DALE P

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N67458 Howard DGA-15 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

HOWARD DGA-15 · N67458

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

Business

Airport

GILA RESERVATION

Kind of flying

DG

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

70° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001774

Total time

1,227 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

8,000

Age

61

Investigator remarks

R BRAKE MASTER CYL CONTAINED SLUDGE BUILD UP.

Cause factors

70/C/CJ C
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause
84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
88/C/CD C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JAMMED Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause

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 0618. Source file NTSB_1974_3_0618.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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