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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX77FUM10

1976-12-17 BRAWLEY, California, United States Serious 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N41SB

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BEECH S35

Year of manufacture

1964 · 12 years old at event

Engine

CONT MOTOR IO 520 SERIES (285 hp)

Seats / Engines

6 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19640903

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4D359

Registrant of record

BRILLAUD STEPHEN A DBA

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

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 J5A · N41SB

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

E

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

D

Airport

BRAWLEY MUNI.

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

50° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000005-621

Total time

4,119 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

2,500

Age

48

Cause factors

  • 64/A/15 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/22 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 83/J/I J
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS 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 3599. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3599.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.