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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76FUJ43

1975-11-20 GOODYEAR, Arizona, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5330C Cessna 140A 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

CESSNA 140A · N5330C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

260° / 10 kt

Temp

67° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000015450

Total time

3,687 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

853

Age

43

Investigator remarks

NO ENG MALFUNCTION FOUND.

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
64/B/15 B
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS
88/K/79 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS SUNGLARE Joint factor
83/K/I K
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3337. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3337.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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