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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76FUQ28

1976-03-13 OJAI, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N5414K

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

NAVION NAVION B

Year of manufacture

1951 · 25 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING GO-435C&D SER (260 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19641026

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A6DE91

Registrant of record

THRALL DONALD D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N5414K Navion B Minor

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

NAVION B · N5414K

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

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000NAV42314B

Total time

2,010 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

521

Age

54

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

WHEELING OF PROP.

Investigator remarks

BOLTS FAILED IN GEARED NOSE SECTION,CAUSED FREE

Cause factors

74/C/AY C
POWERPLANT OTHER Cause
88/C/95 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS MATERIAL FAILURE Cause
83/K/A K
TERRAIN WET,SOFT GROUND Joint factor
88/K/94 K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OVERLOAD FAILURE 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 0477. Source file NTSB_1976_3_0477.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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