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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76FUQ12

1975-10-12 BURBANK, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N4679D Beech H35 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 H35 · N4679D

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dusk

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D2

Operator type

Business

Airport

BURBANK

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

350° / 2 kt

Temp

53° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000D-4892

Total time

4,285 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

860

Age

42

Investigator remarks

LND ON FREEWAY,HIT CENTER DIVIDER.

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
64/B/54 B
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED CLEARANCE
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 3001. Source file NTSB_1975_3_3001.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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