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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX76FVG10

1975-08-02 ADELANTO, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N63820

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING 737-924ER

Year of manufacture

2014

Engine

CFM INTL CFM56-7B27E

Seats / Engines

191 seats · 2 engines

Last airworthiness date

20140326

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A85E2B

Registrant of record

UNITED AIRLINES INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N63820 Fairchild M-62C 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

FAIRCHILD M-62C · N63820

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D0

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

EL MIRAGE

Kind of flying

DI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000157SL

Total time

2,865 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

673

Age

41

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

LND IN SAND DUNE.

Investigator remarks

PLT SWITCHED TANKS TOO LATE. RELEASED GLIDER OK.

Cause factors

64/C/32 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 2300. Source file NTSB_1975_3_2300.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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