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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX77FUD05

1977-03-17 COMPTON, California, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3707S Cessna 172E 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 172E · N3707S

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

COMPTON

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Wind

330° / 12 kt

Temp

60° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000017250907

Total time

1,738 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

334

Age

39

Cause factors

64/C/46 C
PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
64/C/82 C
PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
88/K/DH K
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS RAN OFF END OF RUNWAY 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 0349. Source file NTSB_1977_3_0349.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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