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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX75FUA11

1974-10-12 AVALON, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5870L AMER AVCO AA-5 Minor

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

AMER AVCO AA-5 · N5870L

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

ARPT IN THE SKY

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

AA-5-0070

Total time

773 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

164

Age

36

Investigator remarks

SETTLED INTO ROCKY DWN SLOPE.

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/07 C
PILOT IN COMMAND DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND Cause
64/B/16 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
88/L/22 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH

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 3307. Source file NTSB_1974_3_3307.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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