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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX75DUJ55

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

Aircraft involved

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

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). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

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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