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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76FUG58

1976-06-22 29 PALMS, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N69747 Stinson V-77 Serious

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

STINSON V-77 · N69747

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Airport

FRICK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000077-490

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,600

Age

40

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WDSHIELD,LOST POWER,STRUCK CABIN.

Investigator remarks

HIGH OIL TEMP & LOW OIL PRESS WITH OIL SPRAY ON

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS
88/J/81 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OIL EXHAUSTION-ENGINE LUBRICATION SYSTEM Joint cause
88/J/AJ J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE Joint 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 1844. Source file NTSB_1976_3_1844.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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