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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX74FUQ16

1973-10-20 MOJAVE, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N148F

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AVIAT AIRCRAFT INC S-2C

Year of manufacture

2000

Engine

LYCOMING AEIO-540 SER (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20010125

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0C0E5

Registrant of record

RAMSEY WILLIAM

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N148F Grumman F8F-2 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

GRUMMAN F8F-2 · N148F

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Airport

MOJAVE

Kind of flying

DF

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000121787

Total time

1,094 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

17,500

Age

43

Investigator remarks

FIRE FROM UNDETERMINED SOURCE DRG HEAT RACE.

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/AC J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE OF UNDETERMINED ORIGIN Joint cause
88/J/51 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE Joint 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 4154. Source file NTSB_1973_3_4154.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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