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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX77FUM38

1977-09-06 SAN DIEGO, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N1137X Piper PA-28 Minor

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-28 · N1137X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

LINDBERGH FIELD

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

OBSCURATION

Wind

330° / 6 kt

Temp

73° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

0028-7515392

Total time

1,549 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,179

Age

25

Investigator remarks

TALL BLDGS IN PATH OF ACFT

Cause factors

74/C/KA C
POWERPLANT POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS Cause
84/B/7 B
MISCELLANEOUS EVASIVE MANEUVER TO AVOID COLLISION
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS
88/L/16 L
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FAILED TO USE ALL AVAILABLE RUNWAY

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 2985. Source file NTSB_1977_3_2985.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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