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LAX75DUM28

1975-06-23 · IMPERIAL, California, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
CESSNA 206B · N3414L
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
Personal/private
Kind of flying
B0

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
180° / 220 kt
Temp
90° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
J206-0714
Total time
2,150 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
880
Age
44

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

DESERT.

Investigator remarks

NR 3 CYL CONROD BOLTS FAILED. PLT LND ON NARROW

Cause factors

  • 74/C/AC C
    POWERPLANT MASTER AND CONNECTING RODS Cause
  • 88/C/36 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FATIGUE FRACTURE Cause
  • 64/B/35 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN
  • 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 1479. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1479.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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