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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX77FUD02

1977-01-16 COMPTON, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N2717C

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

CESSNA 170B

Year of manufacture

1954 · 23 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR C145 SERIES (145 hp)

Seats / Engines

4 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19551123

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A2AD83

Registrant of record

GIBBONEY SCOTT H

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N2717C Cessna 170B 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

CESSNA 170B · N2717C

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Cruise — descent (EF)

Operator type

D

Airport

COMPTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

225° / 5 kt

Temp

80° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000026261

Total time

3,200 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,200

Age

36

Investigator remarks

BRAKES LOCKED FOR UNDETERMINED REASON.

Cause factors

70/A/CJ A
AIRFRAME BRAKING SYSTEM (NORMAL SYSTEM) Cause — pilot/personnel action

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 0682. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0682.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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