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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX77DUJ66

1977-06-24 SAFFORD, Arizona, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N5834D Piper PA-22 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

PIPER PA-22 · N5834D

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

BROKEN

Temp

94° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000L497027

Total time

1,950 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

343

Age

45

Investigator remarks

PIECE OF RUBBER LODGED IN FUEL LINE.

Cause factors

74/C/CB C
POWERPLANT LINES AND FITTINGS Cause
88/C/CF C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS OBSTRUCTED Cause
84/C/G C
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS Cause
83/K/F K
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 1548. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1548.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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