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LAX75DUJ55

1974-04-27 · MCNEAL, Arizona, United States · None · 2 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
FORNEY F-1A · N3031G
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000001150
Total time
463 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Flight instructor (CFI)
Total hours
2,696
Age
30

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

HDOWN TAIL LOW ATTITUDE

Investigator remarks

INSTRUCTOR ASSUMED CNTL TOO LATE TO PREVENT TOUC

Cause factors

  • 74/C/CA C
    POWERPLANT TANKS Cause
  • 88/C/55 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS CORRODED/CORROSION Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 68/C/D6 C
    PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
  • 88/K/94 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE Joint factor
  • 83/K/F K
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint factor

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 2381. Source file NTSB_1974_3_2381.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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