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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX75FUJ51

1974-12-28 CAREFREE, Arizona, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6491V HELIO ACFT H-295 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

HELIO ACFT H-295 · N6491V

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Business

Airport

RANCH STRIP

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000001456

Total time

255 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Total hours

7,000

Age

57

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

GR TO OPERATE IMPROPERLY.HIT DENSE THICKET.

Investigator remarks

L BRAKE LINING INSTALLED BACKWARDS.CAUSED X-WIND

Cause factors

70/C/CJ C
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause
88/C/CB C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY INSTALLED Cause
88/C/CV C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS VIBRATION,EXCESSIVE Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause
80/K/BY K
AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES OTHER 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 4287. Source file NTSB_1974_3_4287.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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