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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX75FUD01

1974-07-08 HAWTHORNE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N17659

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

SPARTAN 7W

Engine

P&W R-985 SERIES (450 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19550705

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A132A0

Registrant of record

NEWBERG EDGAR T

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N17659 Spartan 7W None

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

SPARTAN 7W · N17659

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

D

Airport

HAWTHORNE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

180° / 10 kt

Aircraft history

Serial number

7W22

Total time

5,030 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

30,502

Age

61

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

E.

Investigator remarks

PILOT LEFT RAG IN ENG COWL WHCH ENTRD CARB INTAK

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
74/C/CL C
POWERPLANT RAM AIR ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/CF C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OBSTRUCTED Cause
84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause

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 1763. Source file NTSB_1974_3_1763.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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