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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76FUQ42

1976-06-16 MOJAVE, California, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N69QF N. AMERICAN P-51 Fatal

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

N. AMERICAN P-51 · N69QF

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D7

Operator type

D

Airport

MOJAVE

Kind of flying

B1

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

260° / 25 kt

Temp

85° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000044-7476N

Total time

939 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

DA (DA)

Age

43

Investigator remarks

GUSTING 40K.

Cause factors

84/A/I A
MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
82/J/H J
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS 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 2548. Source file NTSB_1976_3_2548.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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