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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event LAX77FUQ40

1977-07-12 LOMPOC, California, United States Minor 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N14AE

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MAULE M-7-260C

Year of manufacture

2000

Engine

LYCOMING IO-540 SER (300 hp)

Seats / Engines

5 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20000131

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A0A05C

Registrant of record

OSBORN JON C

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

EBEL VAREZE 10 · N14AE

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

DC

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

00000AGE-100

Total time

20 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

3,638

Age

68

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

TANKS BLO ENG DRG SPIN.LND IN BEAN FLD.

Investigator remarks

CANOPY OPENED,ENTERED SPIN.RECOV OK.ENG QUIT DUE

Cause factors

  • 74/C/CA C
    POWERPLANT TANKS Cause
  • 88/C/96 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
  • 68/C/J2 C
    PERSONNEL POOR/INADEQUATE DESIGN Cause
  • 70/L/BH L
    AIRFRAME WINDSHIELDS,WINDOWS,CANOPIES
  • 88/L/29 L
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY SECURED
  • 83/K/F K
    TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN 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 1516. Source file NTSB_1977_3_1516.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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