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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76FUD12

1976-08-21 EL MONTE, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N6137N Beech B23 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

BEECH B23 · N6137N

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

Wind

220° / 8 kt

Temp

88° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000M1220

Total time

1,004 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

165

Age

53

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

Y ENGINE OPERATION. LND HARD ON FIRING RANGE.

Investigator remarks

CARBURETOR AIR DUCT HOSE WAS BEING SUCKED FLAT B

Cause factors

74/C/CL C
POWERPLANT RAM AIR ASSEMBLY Cause
88/C/BJ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS COLLAPSED Cause
64/B/50 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED SPEED
64/B/25 B
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER LEVEL OFF
83/K/Y K
TERRAIN 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 3258. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3258.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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