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LAX77FUQ05

1976-10-24 · CANYON COUNTRY, California, United States · None · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
FUNK B75L · N81109
Damage
Substantial
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Airport
MYSTERY MESA RNCH
Kind of flying
B2

Weather at impact

Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET
Wind
315° / 8 kt
Temp
75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000000239
Total time
851 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
Airline transport
Total hours
82
Age
32

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

OOSE IN CYLINDER.

Investigator remarks

NUMBER 4 PISTON WAS PEENED & PART OF VALVE WAS L

Cause factors

  • 74/A/AF A
    POWERPLANT VALVE ASSEMBLIES Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 64/B/52 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED ALTITUDE AND CLEARANCE
  • 88/K/22 K
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS POORLY PLANNED APPROACH Joint factor

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

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3265. Source file NTSB_1976_3_3265.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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