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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX77DUM32

1977-07-29 BRAWLEY, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N9989P Piper PA-36 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

PIPER PA-36 · N9989P

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

Part 135 (air taxi/commuter)

Airport

CROP DUSTER STRIP

Kind of flying

CB

Weather at impact

Sky

BROKEN

Wind

140° / 7 kt

Temp

87° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000701125

Total time

702 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

6,570

Age

50

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

CH

Investigator remarks

UNABLE TO LIFT-OFF,CONT INTO DITCH.

Cause factors

64/A/29 A
PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause — pilot/personnel action
64/A/81 A
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF Cause — pilot/personnel action
88/J/24 J
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS JETTISONED LOAD 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 1802. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1802.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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