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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX75AL030

1975-01-30 DAGGETT, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N957Q Beech N35 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

BEECH N35 · N957Q

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

Part 91 (general aviation)

Airport

BARSTOW DAGGETT

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-BELOW 1000 FEET

Wind

290° / 17 kt

Temp

47° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000D6837

Total time

3,396 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

1,132

Age

43

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

STABS & L WG FAILED.PLT BLOOD ALC LVL 0.192 PCT.

Investigator remarks

ENTERED CLOUD BANK ABT 3000FT AGL.LOST CTL.BOTH

Cause factors

64/C/04 C
PILOT IN COMMAND CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS Cause
64/C/66 C
PILOT IN COMMAND SPATIAL DISORIENTATION Cause
64/C/09 C
PILOT IN COMMAND EXCEEDED DESIGNED STRESS LIMITS OF AIRCRAFT Cause
64/C/65 C
PILOT IN COMMAND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT Cause
88/C/67 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ALCOHOLIC IMPAIRMENT OF EFFICIENCY AND JUDGMENT Cause
88/L/94 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE
88/L/49 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SEPARATION IN FLIGHT
82/L/Y L
WEATHER OTHER

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 0510. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0510.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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