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LAX77FA008

1976-11-05 · AVALON, California, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
BEECH D-45 · N14406
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
DC
Operator type
L
Kind of flying
B1

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000144068
Total time
5,495 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial — instrument
Total hours
249
Age
22

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

60FT OF WATER.

Investigator remarks

OBSERVED LOW OVER OCEAN,ACFT SMOKING. SANK IN 15

Cause factors

  • 84/A/I A
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/AC J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE OF UNDETERMINED ORIGIN Joint cause
  • 88/J/88 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3260. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3260.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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